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Old July 27th, 2009
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hi

You have not stated what operting system you are running, a very important point.

If it is Vista or XP with Service Pack 3 than you will be enjoying the security 'improvements'.

Have a look at

Black Viper's Web Site

for 'tweaks' that will probably solve your problem.
Main thing is to disable all of the MS security stuff.
Might sound foolish but it's the price to pay if you want to have even moderately good performance and reduce your clicking by about 300%!

The 'tweaks' are all safe.

Plus, although there are many who will argue for their own favourites, I would recommend the Cole2k STANDARD Codec pack and 'easy' installation, and the All In One 6.0.3.0 Codec Pack (again with the standard/default settings).

One basic 'secret' is to remove/uninstall your existing Codec Packs, do a restart and then install first

Codec Pack Standard

next

All In One 6.0.3.0

Then, do a shutdown.
Next, start your comp and install the latest

VLC Media Player


The installation order is important.

Last, if you occasionally have problems with VLC and DVD material it is no big surprise and PowerDVD will probably run the DVD without problems.

btw, VLC should have no problems with Matroska files.
Hi, This has just frightened me. I don't understand it at all. I run Windows XP as an OS. I'm sorry but nothing makes any sense to me at all because I am not terribly computer literate. Odd, I know, since I was in IT support for ten years but since having to give up work because I am totally disabled, I haven't any way to keep up with all the changes which are happening continually. Thank you so much for trying to help me but I am not able to understand any of it to take the chance of doing anything.
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avi is a containor file .. the actual file type inside could be anything, but my guess is H/X.264 or Matroska. (Matroska is generally a containor file itself but I believe there is a specific Matroska video format also; not sure) Matroska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm a night owl lol I'm actually from the same land mass as you.

You won't have problems if you use VLC .. but pripla's suggestion is ok too.
Hi, I don't even know what a container file is, nor all the others you mentioned. Boy I wish I was able to get about and keep up to date on all the changes which have happened over the last ten years I have been bed ridden.
Thanks so much for your kind reply. I really appreciate it.
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Hi Lord of the Rings... The file extension is .avi. The file size is 683 MB and I run on Windows XP. Thanks for your response. You must be up at all hours of day and night!
Regards,
Perregrine
Either this is the shortest movie in history, or it's definitely not High Definition. A high definition copy of a movie is usually over 4GB large and upwards. It will definitely not be .avi extension, because .avi unlike .mkv does not allow upscaling (has to to with DVD vs. encode pixels as to get proper aspect ratio). VLC is usually a trusted player, whether good or not there are different opinions, but I don't like the fact it purposely tries to make you download VLC and opens a link. Be very sure it's actually the real videolan site and not some copycat trying to have you download malware on your computer.

The real site is VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player
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Either this is the shortest movie in history, or it's definitely not High Definition. A high definition copy of a movie is usually over 4GB large and upwards. It will definitely not be .avi extension, because .avi unlike .mkv does not allow upscaling (has to to with DVD vs. encode pixels as to get proper aspect ratio). VLC is usually a trusted player, whether good or not there are different opinions, but I don't like the fact it purposely tries to make you download VLC and opens a link. Be very sure it's actually the real videolan site and not some copycat trying to have you download malware on your computer.

The real site is VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player
Hi Sleepless, you are a veritable treasure. You have hit the nail on the head. I clicked on your link and the web site is nothing at all like the one which you are redirected to when you download the particular movie I have been trying to get. Also, thank you so much for that information about high definition and the file size. It is nothing like 4 Gb. I downloaded it from Limewire, too. I do check Bitzi before downloading but for some movies which are current, people have put a listing on but nothing on the listing about their copy. I find that quite odd.
I can't thank you enough. I guess the best thing for me to do is to wait a couple of weeks and see if more people have copies of the movie which are not a mess. I did say in my judgement in Bitzi that it insists you download VLC Media Player to the point that you are redirected to the web site.
Thank you so much. I am so grateful for your help. You have helped me before actually and got me through a bind so I am a fan!
Kind regards,
Perregrine
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I have a simple rule...

any video which tries to do anything besides play the file is deleted immediately...

I also ban any media player from being able to access the net with my firewall....
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I have a simple rule...

any video which tries to do anything besides play the file is deleted immediately...

I also ban any media player from being able to access the net with my firewall....
Thank you, too. I am so grateful for your help. I, too, am very careful about downloading anything which tries to make you do something you do not want to do. And thank goodness for my Security Zone Policy. The trouble with this one was that it didn't happen until you started to play it. It has already been deleted. Bother about the waste of my download allocation but better to have a healthy computer. Kind regards, Perregrine
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