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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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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