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06-09-2004, 03:06 PM
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Can't watch a movie
When I try to open the video with Windows media player, real player, and winamp the program closes by itself. When I try to use DivX player the video doesnt play even when I press play. I can scroll the bar to skip it but it doesnt play.
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06-09-2004, 03:10 PM
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what type of movie? encoded file (AVI, MPEG, etc) or a DVD?
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06-09-2004, 03:13 PM
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its a MPEG
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06-09-2004, 03:20 PM
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If you didn't have the proper codec, I would think it would give you an error message. Does this happen with any movie file, if it's just one in particular, could be a bad file.
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06-09-2004, 03:42 PM
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Yea it's just that file, the only thing wrong is just that it doesn't play. I can skip through it and see parts of it.
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06-09-2004, 03:50 PM
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I would say re-encode the file and see if that fixes it. If you didn't encode it, and it's not copyright protected, download the file again from where ever you got it.
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06-10-2004, 01:53 PM
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how do i encode it.
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06-10-2004, 02:10 PM
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you would need to recapture it from the original source.
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06-10-2004, 02:16 PM
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Get Virtualdub-mpeg2.
Open the video, save as .avi |
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06-10-2004, 05:09 PM
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I get this error when trying to open it:
"Couldn't locate decompressor for format"XVID"(unkown) VirtualDub requires a Video for Windows(VFW)compatible codec to decompress video. DirtectShow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player, are not suitable." |
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06-10-2004, 05:56 PM
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Google for XviD, download and install it.
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06-10-2004, 07:26 PM
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tried that, XviD just closed by itself also.
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06-10-2004, 07:31 PM
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never mind , got it to work now, thanks for the help.
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