Hello,
I am getting "This AVI file is broken" message on several files.
But GSPOT codec tool doesn't think the file is broken.
AVICODEC program doesn't thinbk the AVI file is broken.
Media player classic doesn't think the AVI file is broken.
VLC actually does play the file and seeking isn't slow at all.
So what is going on here? I have several files which give this warning.
Are the files "broken" or aren't they? What is meant by broken anyway?
While I'm here, a question that's been bugging me for about a decade now, when multiple codecs are installed on a system which are capable of playing a particular file, how does one choose which codec to use? I have never found any setting in windows or in any media player I have ever used to do this, and have found that changing which codec is used to play a file is a ridiculessly cumbersome process- turning off the codecs bundled within the player, disabling decoding in ffdshow and then finding that some of the remaining codecs are chosen before others and finding that I have to uninstall one codec just to use an alternative.
Is there a straight-forward way to simply choose which codec to use? Why do media players not offer the user the option of choosing which codec is used to play a file? I am dying to know. I have searched the internet many times trying to make sense of the way codecs are implimented and have only found that it doesn't make sense.
Thanks for any help.