Instead, if you want a media player that generally supports a lot of different encodings, I would suggest using VLC Media Player. You mention that you're using Windows Media Player, and funnily enough it's listed as a supported media player, however it's fairly notorious for not supporting a lot of encodings. Your editing software on the other hand, can decode the video just fine.

So to address your specific case where you're only hearing audio: what is happening is that Windows Media Player doesn't know how to decode the video, only the audio, thus you only hear the game and not see it. It's compatible with popular players such as Windows Media Player, VLC, and YouTube. NVIDIA ShadowPlay is a component of the GeForce Experience software. Q: What video format is used by ShadowPlay?Ī: ShadowPlay encodes video using H.264 codec and outputs in MP4 format. So how are your Shadowplay videos encoded? Well according to nVidia's FAQ on Shadowplay, they are using H.264 video encoding: Programs (such as media players) that then attempt to open these files need to not only read the file, but be able to decode the actual video or audio content in order to play. mp4 files, and one will play and another wont, because they are encoded entirely different from one another.

avi vs other, because the encoding within those files can differ as well: you could have 2. Audio and Video files can be compressed and encoded in many different ways.

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