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re: Problems with an AVI movie file
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 5:44 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by twi2e
(8 messages posted)
.AVI files must be complete in order to be playable. I'm no expert at the terms but
we can call it index. In .AVI files the index of the file are always placed in the
very end of the file and if you haven't gotten the entire file from kazaa or the
one sharing it didn't have the entire clip himself - there's no index and the file
won't work. Other file formats as .MPG are playable no matter size, probably because
the index is placed in the beginning of the file, but if you play an incomplete .mpg
it might say it's 30 minutes long but ends after 4 minutes for instance. But ofcourse
there's a solution for your .AVI problems. 1) Download the entire .AVI file or for
you pornlovers: 2) Download DivXfix, a small tool that lets you strip and/or remove
the index and create a new one. The .AVI file will work, but ofcourse, the part you
never downloaded won't be in it...
// TWI2E
On Monday, February 10, 2003 at 5:30 am, Mr W Birch wrote:
>I'm having trouble getting an AVI movie that I downloaded from Kazaa to work on
my
>version of Windows Media Player (the latest one - version 9 I think). I am running
>Windows 2000 pro with all of the latest DivX codecs, and this is the only one that
>won't play. When I run it, it comes up with the movie time (1h:42m), the bar at
>the bottom moves along as though it is being played, yet I have no picture or sound.
> I thought the file was a bit small for the length of movie when I downloaded it
>(220,000KB), so I was wondering if it's just a case of finding the right codec.
>It doesn't work on any other player either...
>
>Any help would be appreciated!
>
>Thanks
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