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Hello, please can someone help me.
ive downloaded the vlc media player but when i want to install it on the system it says " the following disc image could not be opened - reason not recognized."
Please what do i do to fix this problem.

help help..

Are you downloading the 64bits version?

The disk-image corrupted during the download. Please try again.

What's your location btw.? Afrika? Which country?

Yes Afrika
downloaded 5 times and it says the same thing..
i downloaded both 32 and 64 bits.. still nothing...
help pls

Hello,

Could you please try to download the file again from this URL? Tell me if it works better for you.

http://ftp.free.org/mirrors/videolan/vl ... -2.0.5.dmg
or
http://ftp.free.org/mirrors/videolan/vl ... ntel64.dmg

Best,

If it doesn't work, please let us know how large each of the files are? What type of internet connection do you have?

it isnt working.. the files aint large either. about 27mb ..
i have broadband internet connection as well.
done this too many times..

Then it's clearly an issue with your connection since the file is perfectly valid on this mirror...

thank you all for your help.
i finally figured it out..
in my system preferences, it had some options that didnt allow any other app not from the app store to work on my system
once i unclicked it... i redownloaded and now ive got a functional vlc ... yay
thank you very much... very grateful.