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Won't play avi files

Postby argonaut » 31 Jan 2015 16:42

I use VLC as my default player ....... but hit an issue where it won't play avi files properly .. these are compressed with lossless Lagarith codec.

The mediainfo on the files shows:


Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 6.77 GiB
Duration : 17mn 42s
Overall bit rate : 54.8 Mbps
Writing library : VirtualDub build 32842/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : Lagarith
Codec ID : LAGS
Duration : 17mn 42s
Bit rate : 53.2 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 5:4
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 5.134
Stream size : 6.58 GiB (97%)

Anything special I need to add/configure to get these to play.

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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Feb 2015 15:34

What version of VLC did you try?
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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby argonaut » 02 Feb 2015 15:49

The latest according to upgrade screen
ver 2.1.5

The file opens .. but it plays in very short bursts, restarting every few seconds ...
Think files are fine .. load them for example in Sony Vegas and they are accepted as valid and allow play/edit etc/

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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Feb 2015 15:51

Please try 2.2.0 from Nightly Build of VLC
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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby argonaut » 02 Feb 2015 15:59

When I click on link it shows all files start with 3.0.0.x don't see anything in W64 folder for 2.2.0

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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Feb 2015 16:45

Use 32bits.
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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby argonaut » 02 Feb 2015 17:22

Maybe I'm being dumb, shouldn't I be using 64 bit player ? or is this just to test ?

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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Feb 2015 20:00

Really, use the 32bits for now. It's more stable.
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Re: Won't play avi files

Postby argonaut » 02 Feb 2015 21:15

That works OK ...
Will it auto notify of update when it can get back onto mainstream build ?

I'll forget 64bit for now .......... is there an expected time when 64 bit will be stable.?


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