I've downloaded a movie clip of 658 mb, when i play it on either windows media player or real player the progress/seek bar moves and then it stops after 17 seconds. Any suggestions please.

Oh by the way I have no idea what I,m doing this is the first Forum I have entered

Bandit1200

Download, install and use this media player, it will play most things.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/



UK Bob

Ive Downloaded VLC Media Player but it still cannot find anything. Its 658mb so there must be something on it

Bandit1200

There are a lot of fake files on the P2P network and your 658mb film file could be nothing more than a fake, and I have downloaded fake film files before.

Get this utility, called G Spot, and run it on your film file, this will tell you whether you have a genuine or fake file:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm


UK Bob

Ok now I'm totally confused

Can u let me know what all this means

Print Screen from GSpot Attached

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Messed that one up I'll try again

Ive pressed RENDER and this was the result

Video Src Type MPEG1Payload Audio Src MPEG1AudioPayload

Video Path [S]-->MPEG-1 Stream Splitter --> MPEG Video Decoder --> [R]

Adio Path [S]-->MPEG-1 Stream Splitter --> MPEG Audio Decoder --> [R]

What does that mean in English

Bandit1200

Can you do a screen print using MS Paint (save it as a jpg file), without it I have no idea what you are on about.




UK Bob

You learn sopmething everday, Ive spent ages trying to reduce the size of print screen. Hope this is a little bit clearer

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Well Bandit1200

Seems that your file is a a proper video file, your next step is to download some codecs, like Nimo, and install them. Use the link in one of my previous post, minus "download/GSpot.htm", to find a codec package.



UK Bob

Downloaded
Nimo50Build9Beta1 and XP Codec Pack 1.2.5. Still no joy, any more suggestions

Try GSpot, see the links here CODECs list and alternate players for Movies Just open it in GSpot & it will tell you which codec the file needs.

Are you sure the file isn't corrupt or something. If VLC can't play it then that's very strange.
VLC's abilities: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

I see it's MPeg 1 format which is normally used for VCD format.
Did you try opening it in Nero or Roxio burner apps?

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Ive downloaded VLC
Ive downloaded GSpot
Ive downloaded Codecs

And the thing still won't play, unless theres anything else I can try its going to the recycle bin

Once again I thank you for all your help

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