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I try to use VLC but i can't, because i have always this message and I can't find a solution.Someone could explain me ?

Under what conditions does VLC do this?

Can you explain what kind of Mac you have and what kind of file you
are trying to play?

ST

I use MAC OS X 10.4.8
Power Book 1,67 Ghz
VLC 0.8.6a

I try to open a .wmv file.

thanks for your interest

Hi Olben

Using VLC, I was able to play this sample WMV video I found using google.

http://ds3.thatvideosite.com/download.p ... ize=908136

It had some video problems but I could not recreate the
error message you list: access_file: seeking too far

(iBook 1.3GHz vlc 086a)


There are many WMV files I cannot play,
so mostly I avoid them.


The developer of WMV has chosen to keep the format details secret.

As you can imagine, that makes it very difficult to write a decoder.


Your file is most likely encoded with a WMV codec
that is not (yet) understood by VLC's decoder software.

It could also be encrypted.


Much more good information is available here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmv

Steve

very thanks !

Do you thing it exist a codec for VLC to read de .wmv ?

olben: There really was all infomation needed in the previeous post.
There is no seperate "codec" for vlc to support all .wmv files because vlc does not rely on external codecs at all. You may also want to try using the commercial Flip4Mac software for Quicktime. It may in some cases play .wmv files better than vlc (but i don't know).