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anyone has any idea what kind of file is it? i suppose its a video file, if it is so, can vlc play it?

thank you

This is a MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) file.

This kind of file is rather intended to be streamed on a network than played locally, but VLC can read them.

Please note that VLC is almost the only player that will be able to read it, however.

actually i did try to play it in vlc, but i got this error message (from the Messages panel with verbose output):
it opened a window which i think the same size as the video, but then it won't show anything else.

any clue?

-G

actually i did try to play it in vlc, but i got this error message (from the Messages panel with verbose output):

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main error: failed allocating a new buffer (decoder stuck?)

it opened a window which i think the same size as the video, but then it won't show anything else.
-G

What is your CPU horsepower ?

Try moving it to your Harddisk. These errors usually happen when VLC is reading from a CD with a small crack in it or when reading from Windows shares and stuff like that.

its a 2.2GHz celeron with 256MB DDR2100 RAM running windows xp pro. i'm sort of a minimalist, so my windows xp environment is comparatively fast (no eye candies, classic theme, minimal services, etc). i tried upping vlc's priority but no good results. and the file is on the hard disk.

-G