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half of my .avi won't play
Posted: 11 Jan 2008 23:34
by runnguy
i've got a film that i downloaded that is separated into two .avi files. the first one plays fine, the second one doesn't do anything. when i try to open it with VLC the name shows up in the playlist, but the duration remains blank and no video plays. i didn't encounter any problems when downloading the files so it seems strange that one half will play and the other will not. anyone got any clue as to what might be causing the problem?
Re: half of my .avi won't play
Posted: 12 Jan 2008 00:24
by madmax_2069
i've got a film that i downloaded that is separated into two .avi files. the first one plays fine, the second one doesn't do anything. when i try to open it with VLC the name shows up in the playlist, but the duration remains blank and no video plays. i didn't encounter any problems when downloading the files so it seems strange that one half will play and the other will not. anyone got any clue as to what might be causing the problem?
have you tested the file in question on another player, or a player on another computer. cause it sounds to me like the file is corrupt if it will play the first one but not the second one. i dont think there is a way to repair that. maybe find a different place to download it from
Re: half of my .avi won't play
Posted: 12 Jan 2008 02:35
by runnguy
i have not tested them on another computer, but i have tested the files with with miro as well as quicktime (which has the necessary codec to play this file) with the same results as vlc. that is, the first file plays fine, while the second doesn't work. i guess i'll just have to download an entire new version. thanks for your help though.