What file is this that won't play on anything? Have you downloaded other files that do work? If so, I agree you should trash this one. It's just one of those mysteries that might be solved by Einstein, but no one else. I long ago decided computers work on magic; we just think we understand how it all works. But don't mind me. I believe the same thing of the combustion engine.
I went to Google to look up the extension abbreviations and found most of them. AVI is Audio/Video Interleaved. (I haven't figured out leaves yet, though.) MOV is QuickTime content developed by Apple, but that hardly explains the m and o and v. MPEG is Moving Picture Experts Group and MPEG4 is the International Standard. WMV is Windows Media file with audio. (What's the v for then?)
I also looked up codex and got codec which is COmpression/DECompression, an algorithm that encodes or reduces the bytes for large files or programs. Is that the same as codex?
Somewhere in all that I got links to sites for downloading codexes. I made a couple into favorites, if you're interested in seeing if they are sites you haven't already tried.
I still need to know how to take a new movie DVD and download it to my computer in a shareable file form. Is this some cabalistic secret that only the FEW know and can do? I got some neat movies I'd like to share.
Is it true that you can really only download to your system movie files that several users already have on their systems? Without enough hosts, it takes forever. Using DSL with 4 hosts it took two days to download the last movie I wanted. And without multiple locations, I can't get anything but "Need more resources" now. Didn't use to be this hard to download a movies. Is there just too many of us trying now? I have 7 to 10 folks uploading from my system night and day, sharing 19 KB/s between them. That's gonna take a long time.
I had to turn off the screen saver on my system (the hibernate is already off) because everytime the screen saver came on LW would put my connection to sleep. I don't remember it doing that before, since I could download all the time. The turbo charged connection never went to sleep like it does now. I could set it to downloading and it would finish it on it's own without me having to continually wake it up.
I've blathered on again. I should change my nickname to Chatterbox Grandma.