how do you do that? make a short sample file?Could you mail me a short sample file to {mynick} at videolan dot org? Thanks!
It was tough to cut 700 MB to get a short file. I downloaded trial version of iTool Video Cutter for MAC and got a clip file of 3.3 MB. Please note that this file opened in Quicktime with same error whereas the original file was not recognized by Quicktime as a movie file. I tried sending the file to the mentioned address but got a failure notice. I am not sure if this was becasue of attachment size or something else.Could you mail me a short sample file to {mynick} at videolan dot org? Thanks!
I was able to send the clip file to feepk without any issue. Thats what I think as I have not received any error message from gmail like last time. Its more than 3 hrs since I sent it so its safe to assume that email was successful.Oh, really? Strange. Let's put "feepk" in front of the at sign followed by videolan.org. This should definitely work. A 3.3 MB attachment is perfectly fine (AFAIR, my provider has a 20 MB limitation).
If this fails again, use sendspace or something similar and just mail me the link.
Thanks!
Even I had such a hunch but wanted to confirm it, hearing it from an expert does that..Thanks a lot.I got it.
You were tricked by who ever gave you this file. This is no error message created by VLC (this would appear in a separate window along with the usual red stop sign you known from OS X), but text embedded in the video graphics. As it is part of the video's images, it cannot be removed. Therefore, it will also appear when playing it with QuickTimePlayer or MPlayer, etc. Hence, it will even appear if actually played with Windows Media Player.
It is strange that someone asks you to play this file with WMP, so I strongly recommend you no to do so.
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