Cannot play a video file
 

I just downloaded this movie file. I checked the Bitzi ticket for this file & all of the downloaders were able to play & recommended it's good quality except one saying "cannot play".

When i play the file, the player shows it's a 2:02mins file & plays a light noisy audeo. there's nothing else in there, no video. has anybody faced ths kinda prob before? wht'd be the solution?
thanx.

Get this player!!! VLC - (click on link) _ (choose nearest mirror site) which has in-built codecs & is generally very reliable. Also good for audio & video streaming, & for dvd/svcd/vcd playback.

thanx for yue reply. yah, i've tried VLC now. it's also doing the same thing. there's a noisy audeo of 2:02mins but no video. is it possible tht the whole video file is associated with only an almost blank audio but no video?

I haven't heard of that before, but I have come across very poorly encoded videos before, obviously by novices.

Why don't you point us to the Bitzi ticket? That's not terroristic, is it?

It would reveal to the public which file is involved so we would delete such a link, yes.

"Hyper-kun", u can send me yur email add so tht i can send u the link. in tht case, it's a private communication & should be okay with the admins i guess. it's really pathetic whn i download a 699MB file for 2 days & can't play it.

Huh? You'd even delete it if that file is public domain? Some of the rules here don't make any sense. Either you believe in freedom of speech and file-sharing or you don't. The bigotry here is really pissing me off. No private communication is going to happen with me. Either you talk to me in public or you don't.

I'm pretty sure VLC violates some US patents, all software does. You better delete that link to VLC unless you want to get sued.

Who were you refering to with the VLC link Hyper-kun? I believe it's not so different to MPlayer which plays tricks to get around Realplayer's copyrights, but it does & it does it legally!

Sorry but who in the world watches RealMedia encoded videos? The codec must be optimized for blind people. I wouldn't watch such crap if you paid me for it. Technically every application which plays DVDs on Unix is "illegal" in the USA because none of them have a CSS license. I was talking about patents though. Patents have *nothing* to do with copyright. It's very simple: Draw a circle, sell it. I can still legally draw circles and sell them as well. Now patent circle drawing. Now I cannot legally draw circles and sell them, even if I have never heard about your circles, your patent and have figured out myself how to draw circles. You don't have to sell me a license for circle drawing, you can just say "no circle drawing for you". Patents can have a duration of 20 years. Maybe people have drawn circles long before but now I have to invest millions of dollars to sue you before the patent is withdrawn. In most parts of the world, software patents do not exist which means software is legal as long as it doesn't illegally copied code or data. That's not the case in the USA. 99,999% of all software whether open source or closed source is illegal if you checked the code for patent violations. That's not a exaggeration but rather the opposite. My point is little can be posted here without becoming a criminal. Forbidding people to mention hashsums, film titles etc. even if it's not a link and no download location is provided is idiotic. Obviously you have been brain-washed by lawyers.

I was not asking for more than the SHA-1 of the video to look it up on Bitzi to verify whether those good comments are maybe spam. Do you really think posting an SHA-1 infringes anyone's copyright? Even BitTorrent trackers are not illegal anywhere and they do *far* more to support sharing of files.

I searched at Bitzi:

"Files described with words 'copyright infringer' Found 0 results..."

Please donate a dollar to Bitzi for wasting their bandwidth. Thanks.