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Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject:
Can't play avi file downloaded from net? |
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Hey everyone
I can't seem to play this avi file downloaded from the net. I tried
DIVX player, Quicktime file, Real Player, Windows Media, etc. It keeps
saying "file is not supported" which is odd since i assume it is AVI
from the download. Thanks.
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Broncearse
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Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:23 am Post subject:
Re: Can't play avi file downloaded from net? |
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zcarenow@yahoo.com wrote in
news:1120922114.653641.113200@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
| Quote: | Hey everyone
I can't seem to play this avi file downloaded from the net. I tried
DIVX player, Quicktime file, Real Player, Windows Media, etc. It keeps
saying "file is not supported" which is odd since i assume it is AVI
from the download. Thanks.
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If you have a movie and can't seem to get it to play, odds are you have a
conflicting or missing codec. A CODEC (compressor/decompressor) allows you
to play movies and such. To find out exactly what codecs are required to
watch your movie, you can use one or both of two excellent little
utilities:
AVICodec and Gspot. Both AVICodec and GSpot can be used to determine the
codecs required for a movie to play. AVICodec, despite its name has better
MPEG capabilities and thus is reccomended for MPEG files (such as those for
(S)VCDs). GSpot on the otherhand is far more efficient for scanning AVI
files. Both programs offer unique features also, AVICodec allows you to
queue up and entire folder to for checking in addition to providing direct
links to sites where codecs can be downloaded; GSpot allows for 'rendering'
of files (to check to see if the system can actually play the file with the
available codecs and to check for fakes.
AVICodec can be downloaded from http://avicodec.duby.info/ and GSpot can be
downloaded from http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Here's another one recently found -
YAAI - Yet Another Avi Info
http://yaai.sourceforge.net/
A site I like for downloading codecs is: http://www.free-codecs.com
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Guest
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Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject:
Re: Can't play avi file downloaded from net? |
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One forum member mentioned saving file as *.divx but it won't even open
to allow me to save as *.divx or any other format for that matter. So
how do i actually change file type? Thanks.
zcarenow@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | Hey everyone
I can't seem to play this avi file downloaded from the net. I tried
DIVX player, Quicktime file, Real Player, Windows Media, etc. It keeps
saying "file is not supported" which is odd since i assume it is AVI
from the download. Thanks. |
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Old Bugger
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Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:18 am Post subject:
Re: Can't play avi file downloaded from net? |
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On 17 Jul 2005 00:53:08 -0700, zcarenow@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | One forum member mentioned saving file as *.divx but it won't even open
to allow me to save as *.divx or any other format for that matter. So
how do i actually change file type? Thanks.
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Divx is a type of avi. So the file will be *.avi |
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