help! i need to know how to view movie files!
 

help! i cant veiw video files! when ever i try it makes a pop up window that says "second thought installation" from wat ive heard this is a virus or addware. i can listen to audio files fine...
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lordnick5000: It would help to know which OS you use. Yo uprobably need moe codecs for your video player: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html
OR get a free video player that plays all types of video (has inbuilt codecs) except the odd wmv file that has licencing: VLC (a free player - click on link) & make this your default player do everytime you browse a video vlc will play it. Good luck lord

um... yeah, you totally lost me, i have no clue wat the heck that is.... i have windows ME, and i have windows media player? does that help? oh i also have cable connection...

I've never heard of that before but you could be right. I hope you have anti virus softw & ad-ware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ & Spy Sweeper http://www.webroot.com/wb/downloads/index.php

CODEC is short for compressor/decompressor, a codec is any technology for compressing and decompressing data. Codecs can be implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of both. Some popular codecs for computer video include MPEG, Indeo and Cinepak.

Your WMP probably doesn't have the correct codecs to play the videos you're tryng to play. Installing more codecs will hopefully overcome that problem. The reason I suggested VLC is that it has in-built codecs into the program istelf. It's not the prettiest app but it does that job.

so i go to the VLC website (provided by you) and click download VLC windows, then it has a whole bunch of of other things like: Windows self-extracting package:

vlc-0.8.1-win32.exe (6.7MB) :
Select a mirror :
-VIA, Ecole Centrale Paris (France)
-Twente University (Netherlands)
-Cr@ns, ENS Cachan (France)
-Providence University (Taiwan)
-Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil)

which one do i chose? sorry im hopeless at this :o
and know i cant open my windows player :(

These are simply what's known as mirror sites, ie: they have the same thing. Just choose the one closest to you. I dwnlded mine from France but I live over the opposite side of the world! lol :D

Oh to make VLC the default to play movies, highlight one of these files (outdise of LW) & go to File>Properties>Open with... & select VLC. ANd choose always open with.

i live in USA, so i geuss ill go with france to, now how do i make it my defalt player? sorry im wasting ur time :(

Because there's more than one type of movie file; eg: mpeg1, mpeg2, avi, etc. You'll need to do it with each of these types of file so VLC becomes the default to play them. But remember to set default outside of Limewire. Now if you launch a movie within LW, VLC will open it. Good luck & happy watching! ;)

ok i think i made it the defalt for all of them :) thnx for your help ill come bak if i need more :P

ok i got that done but when i click launch it doesnt do anything? wat happening

Hmm interesting. Perhaps you may need to wait until next time you open LW. How large are these video files? They are hopefully 500+MB in size.

ummm? no. sc*ry movie is 149.6 MB the other one is about 30,000 KB is this bad?

Well, if you're only going to watch them on the computer then they should be fine. The 30MB one sounds suspicious. Are you sure they're complete movies? For people who want to burn them they should be aiming at files that are about CD size.

There's a lot of fakes out there & some are corrupt. Which is another reason to aim at the larger sized files. One of these reasons could explain why you can't play them. If VLC can't play them then there's definitely something wrong somewhere.

Once you've dwnlded them, try opening them directly with VLC (not launching them thru LW.) This will tell you one way or another whether these are reasonable files or not. If yu can't open them then they're corrupt most likely.

the 30MB is a music video, so how do i open it directaly in VLC?

Find the path of your LW dwnld folder: Tools>Options>Saving & that will tell you the name, location & path of the LW dwnld folder. Within VLC, select File>Open & direct it to that folder. ALternatively you could drag the video file to the desktop & open it from there OR even try drag & drop the file onto VLC (I think that'll work in windows - purely a guess.) VLC can also play a number of audio formats by the way.

oh well, im just going to forget about watching movies, at least i can listen to music :)

You mean you still can't watch the movie? VLC should be fine to play it.
You should be warned, that just once in a while, an mpeg turns out to be an mp3 (ie: there's not video but if y change the extension to mp3 all's well.) If you were to try anything like that , I'd back up the ifles 1st!!!