i can'T plAY MOVIES!!! What in HELL is going on!
 

I connect to Lime Wire. I merrily download a movie. I know I have Quicktime and a DVD player, so I try to launch the movie. What happens? NOT A DAMNED THING! HELP ME! This is driving me crazy.

DVD playing
 

Hey!! Has anyone gotten an answer for this problem. I am having the same issues with my files. Please let me know if anyone has found a fix for this!!

thanks:

mad:

Could you provide more details as to what you are trying to do? Normally, you would not use your DVD player to view a downloaded video clip.

QuickTime plays many, but not all, video type files. Are you trying to play avi files?
Mpgs? Mov?

Try www.videolan.org for a free player that plays almost any file.
:D

I have video Lan and I still cant play AVI files for some reason.

I downloaded a movie in the mpg format and one in the avi format.

QT says that it is missing software to open the mpg file. QT opens a movie window but says it can not play the avi file, that it is missing a compressor.

VLC opens a window that shows a Warning and then the window closes when I try to open the mpg file. VLC opens a window that is black but plays nothing with the avi file.

The answer is CODECS.

You need the right one to decompress the video.

Ask google:

www.google.com

Morgwen

in addition to QT and VLC, another free player for OSX is mplayer http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=62947

OK, once I download a new player does it dump a lot of files into my system that may cause problems and I can not find to trash if I need to. Why isn't there one player that will paly them all?

Also once I can play them can I record them to a VHS or DVD?

Listen almost all players are able to play all videos, BUT YOU NEED THE RIGHT CODECS!!!


Read what I replied, your player is telling you exatly what it needed to play this video. Software which is able to decompress it - IT IS CALLED CODECS!

Morgwen

Depends on the player and platform of course. Read the EULA carefully. btw--no extras with VLC or mPlayer on OSX here. To remove, I just trash the app. I avoid a commercial Media anything--too many past problems when they try to take over my preferences.
LOL! Sure would be nice, but since so many companies would love to lock us in to THEIR codecs, I don't see them cooperating yet. Welcome to the dot.com media jungle.

:confused:

It woudn´t be nice... it is reality.

Here you will find some links to codecs:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ghlight=codecs

If you need more ask google. I found for every video the right codec, so it is possible to view all with ONE player.

Sure there is no one which supports all codecs, so you have to search a little...

Morgwen

I opened the link that you provided to ZDnet. If I download this DviX Videl Bundle where do I put it and how do I use it. Or do I still use QT and QT finds this codec or what ever it is and uses it?

I never downloaded it for a Mac.

Under Windows you install the file, thats it. Your player will find it when its needed.

Morgwen

I see that many people read this thread...

For Windows users another excellent source of CODECs is

Nimo Codecs

Click on the same in my 'sig' below...
To download Nimo Codecs, choose Build 8 from any of the Mirror Sites that are marked as 'available'...

You will receive practically every possible Codec you will need, a proven player and much more.
Installation is simple. But, be sure to read the very few warnings before you do the install.

btw... CODEC = COder/DECoder .... CO DEC ;)

Kath...

With Nimo, which is also FREE, about 99.9% of all users will only need to do a normal install and NOT install only 2 codecs...
The 2 codecs that most will not want are VERY clearly marked with warnings...

Installation is very easy...

As with so many applications today, there are many absurd and unfortunate fantasies and unfounded rumours floating about...

If a user installs ALL possibilities on offer within Nimo it is still an insignificant amount of HDD space used for an overwhelming benefit.
And, just about anything and everything will run seamlessly with no further demands on the user.
What you have recommended here is vastly more complex and confusing for the average user and a real 'brick-wall' to a so-called 'newbie !

With Nimo you don't 'navigate' to anything... Things simply work...

"I've been told you don't put all of the..."
Kath, you're worrying me again !!!!!!!!! :p

Oh my !!!
I better call Kath... I think someone is impersonating her !!!
:p Spoilsport ! :eek:

There is... it's called http://www.winamp.com

Plays everything except RealAudio/video, but who uses that anyway. Includes the codecs for them too.

P.S. codecs are insignificant in girth, therefore they will not bog anything down.

edit note: I changed only the link. :)

Not only winamp plays all movies... almost every player is able to, if you have the right codecs.

Morgwen

it is most likley because it is an Xvid or DivX file, which need codecs...go to DivX.com and download the player to see if that changes anything