need help for .AVI and .WAV

[GHFan]

For some reason, I can't get VlC to...

Play .WAVs at all, I just get an error that says "filetype not supported"

And when I open a .AVI file it plays the audio fine but no video.

Help?

[DJ]

While both .wav and .avi are very common containers it maybe helpful to know what the file formats are.

VLC supports both DTS and PCM in a WAV container (wrapper).

VLC also supports DivX, XviD and h.264 in a AVI container along with a wide variety of audio formats.

If VLC does not show the formats you are trying to play by pressing ctrl i and going to the advanced info... tab, try a program like Gspot. Be aware that Gspot uses Windows codecs and VLC is self contained and therefore does NOT use Directshow codecs.

[VLC_help]

You can also try nightly builds.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

If those don't playback your files, then as DJ said, you have to give us more info.

[Tjukken]

hi i have similar/same problen with some .avi

file name: engine 2008-09-14 00-10-00-20.avi
thers no advanced info

statistic says:

input: read media = 14752kb, input bit rate = 18298, demuxed = 13873, stream bitrate = 19066
video: Decoded blocks 135, displayed frames 299, lost frames 133
streaming: sendt packets 0 , sent bytes 0, send rate 0.
lyd(sound) decoded blocks 0, played buffer 0, lost buffers 0.

wmp plays this .

GS spot says:
File Length Correct
OpenDML (AVI v2.0)
Video: 14.0 MB (99.89%)
AVI Overhead: 15.8 KB (0.11%)

[JUNK] VirtualDub build 29963/release

codec = CRAM
name Microsoft 1



if u need more info i will try to obtain this.



edit: forgot one info. this is from a online game. so the video avi is created by fraps or similar

[DJ]

To the best of my knowledge codec = CRAM name Microsoft 1 is NOT supported. If you had opened the video in VLC and then pressed ctrl i and select the advanced information tab the video should say unsupported.

[VLC_help]

CRAM fourcc should be same as MSVC (Microsoft Video 1), which VLC should play.
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1199

so either post us short sample file so I can try fourcc trick or try it yourself (change fourCC from CRAM to MSVC).

[Tjukken]

hi

i played it in wmp after downing codecs to it. strange that i had to down codec for wmp to this.

coz all my rechearch it seems to be a microsoft codec. not werry good one it appers to either.

anywhy. if the guy who made this insist to continue to use this codec i look furter in to make it work with vlc.
if he change it to more usefuel codec i wont bother to look more into it.

if i find a usefuel way to make this work with vlc i try to remember to post it here.

ty for helping