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http://www.mininova.org/tor/887106 Yes, I did check the comments and found nothing pointing to any problems. By the way I think I found what is causing the problem. I looked into the file with a hex editor and found that the RIFF (http://www.jmcgowan.com/avitech.html#Format) header is missing. Now ...

$ file 24_101__12.AM.to.1.AM--.avi 24_101__12.AM.to.1.AM--.avi: data I tried playing the file in Quicktime (responded with, this is no movie file), Mplayer (did nothing) and of course VLC none of them succeeded... Might it be that the avi header is corrupted? Is there a way to repair such damage?

Hi, I just downloaded some tv epdisodes in supossibly avi format. (the file suffix states .avi) When I try to play the file nothing happens. The message log looks like this: main debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 FPU main debug: looking for memcpy module: 3 candidates main debu...