.avi files won't play. they used to. what happened?

[alana]

Hi, suddenly none of my .avi files (which are the only files i try to play) work. even the little clock doesn't move forward. this is the what the messages thingie says about it. What gives?

thanks for your help!
Alana

main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate
main debug: creating access '' path='/Users/alanaklein/Music/entourage s03e09.avi'
main debug: looking for access2 module: 7 candidates
vcd debug: trying .cue file: /Users/alanaklein/Music/entourage s03e09.cue
access_file debug: opening file `/Users/alanaklein/Music/entourage s03e09.avi'
main debug: using access2 module "access_file"
main debug: pre-buffering...
main debug: received first data for our buffer
macosx debug: input has changed, refreshing interface
main debug: pre-buffering done 1408981 bytes in 0s - 19927 kbytes/s
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='/Users/alanaklein/Music/entourage s03e09.avi'
main debug: looking for demux2 module: 43 candidates
ffmpeg debug: couldn't guess format
ps warning: this does not look like an MPEG PS stream, continuing anyway
main debug: using demux2 module "ps"
main debug: looking for a subtitle file in /Users/alanaklein/Music/
main debug: `/Users/alanaklein/Music/entourage s03e09.avi' successfully opened
ps warning: garbage at input, trying to resync...
main debug: EOF reached
macosx debug: input has stopped, refreshing interface
main debug: closing input
main debug: removing module "ps"
main debug: removing module "access_file"
main debug: thread 35679744 joined (input/input.c:399)
main: nothing to play

[krmathis]

Delete the VLC Preferences (use the tool inside the VLC disk image).
Then launch VLC and see if the movies will play.

[alanaklein]

Thansk for the reply.
Do you mean VLC --> preferences --> reset all?
I tried that, but it didn't help....
Thanks again,
Alana

[krmathis]

No. I mean the 'Delete_Preferences.app' inside the vlc-0.8.5.dmg

[jdkullmann]

[quote="krmathis"]No. I mean the 'Delete_Preferences.app' inside the vlc-0.8.5.dmg[/quote]

i tried that, they still won't play. they used to.

i even tried installing the latest nightly beta intel vlc - same. playing the file just causes it to zoom past in the progress bar in about 5 seconds with no video or audio at all.

i've been playing .avi files on this system for months.

how else can i tell what is going on? can it turn on verbose logging or something? thanks

[alana]

Same problem exactly. I even dowloaded vlc again, and it didn't help!
any ideas?

[InfernoSoul]

Any chance you could while the file is open goto " Window > Information > Advanced Information > Stream 0" and tell us what codec it uses? I tried several of my .avi's and they all work with different codecs even.

[The DJ]

The file is not even opened, because VLC does not recognize it as being of type .avi

Are you really sure the EXACT same file used to work before? I doubt it. little changed over the past year in the .avi dectection code, if anything at all.

[schwein]

Hi, I've been experiencing exactly the same issue for several days now. Some avi, mpeg, mkv files that used to work (last week for more of them) are now unreadable. Same error messages, and VLC often crashes. I trashed prefs by hand or with the script, reinstalled the app. Changed HD and machine, it is the same.
I go on searching, and let you know if I find something...

[kitsunejenna]

Any chance you could while the file is open goto " Window > Information > Advanced Information > Stream 0" and tell us what codec it uses? I tried several of my .avi's and they all work with different codecs even.

I'm running DIVX for a codec
I'm getting the same problem as everyone else, does the codec have something to do with it?