| 18 May 2008 11:42 pm |
Entree Rep: 0 Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 2 OFFLINE | Hi, I’m relatively new to this whole thing so bear with me :)
Recently my friend sent me a movie clip he was working on to watch but I can’t seem to see anything. It works on his computer and there is definetly something there (the size is 98.9 MB). The extension is .avi. When I tried to play it with VLC it opens but then closes instantly and shows a run time of 0:00/0:00. Any ideas as to how to make it work?
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| 19 May 2008 07:24 am |
Regular Rep: 5 Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1,266 | VLC is a powerful all-in-one player, but it’s to be expected it can’t handle all the formats out there (though it handles a lot of them). Probably the most notable is Indeo, but there’s others.
Use gspot or avicodec to find out which codec/container the file uses.
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| 19 May 2008 09:28 am |
Entree Rep: 0Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 2 OFFLINE | K I tried using gspot but it comes back with a message like codec status unknown... is the file toast then?
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| 19 May 2008 11:51 am |
Regular Rep: 5Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1,266 | If it says file type unknown then yes.
If it says codec status undetermined it just means gspot hasn’t implemented the feature yet (to check whether the codec is installed - this is true of some containers like asf/wmv or mov).
If you’re using gpost 2.70 alpha the box to really look at is the codec box at the upper right (under c,S). In gspot 2.21 it’s in the 4CC box.
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