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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on July 12, 2004, 06:47:25 pm

Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: an0n on July 12, 2004, 06:47:25 pm: .......does anyone know why nothing on the entire godadmn internet will play this SVCD .dat file I've got?

Two frickin days downloading the royalty-free video and nothing I can think of will run it.

DivX should, in theory, love it. But it just *****es at me about it not being a valid AVI/MPEG4 file.
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Styxx on July 12, 2004, 06:56:09 pm: Er, you got XviD, right?
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: an0n on July 12, 2004, 06:57:11 pm: I've installed a ****load of things over the years, including Nimo. So I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say yes.

*installs VCDeasy to see if that can tell him what the file is supposed to be*
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Rictor on July 12, 2004, 06:59:10 pm: Gspot will also serve the same purpose, to tell you what codec/standard the file is recorded on.
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: an0n on July 12, 2004, 07:20:26 pm: Gspot is totally ****in' stumped.

All it says is that it's an MPEG/MPG/VOB file.
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Kamikaze on July 12, 2004, 07:51:08 pm: Hmmm... try this:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

There was a nasty video file winmedia and divx-player refused to open the other day, it worked pretty quick with VLC.
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Bobboau on July 12, 2004, 10:35:49 pm: I've used that, it opens lots of stuff other things won't look at
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Post by: Thorn on July 12, 2004, 10:52:08 pm: tried VirtualDub?
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Nico on July 13, 2004, 01:53:13 am: Maybe it's because your file is a fake, corrupted or whatever, and won't care about any codecs? :p
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Zarax on July 13, 2004, 02:03:00 am: Suggestion:
Next time you rebuild your system, please, please avoid codec packs.
They mess up with the entire DirectShow architecture in an horrible way, and fixing it on system is possible but pretty nasty as you have to most likely unregister every unwanted decoder manually...
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Nico on July 13, 2004, 02:08:43 am: Huh? You can just uninstal the pack, you know, it woks as well as any other installer ( that or YOUR windows is already really bloated ).
Anyway, I never really had any problem with a pack, works well usually, and never messed up my comp.
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Zarax on July 13, 2004, 02:13:58 am: Nico, you've been very lucky then, believe me...
Not every pack unistalls so nicely, and stuff like Nimo is nightmarish, at least if you wish to keep a carefully chosen set of codecs and filters as i do...
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Nico on July 13, 2004, 02:47:27 am: I usualy use Nimo, but right now I have the K-lite pack, coz I... well I felt like changing when I bought my new PC :p. I just let the thing instal the recommanded codecs and leave the others aside. I don't carefully choose anything, if it works, it's fine, if not, I uninstal the faulty codec and that's all there is to it :)
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Post by: Bobboau on July 13, 2004, 02:50:11 am: haveing too many installed has been known to cause problems
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Post by: Zarax on July 13, 2004, 03:25:52 am: http://microsoftusernetwork.com/mcored/knowledgebase/kb-directshowfix.htm

You need only a handful codecs to get everything working...
Anything else will pretty much tap in system performance and DirectShow reliability...
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: an0n on July 13, 2004, 09:00:12 am: I've deleted the file.

It wasn't so much fake as just incredibly ****ty workmanship.

You could tell enough from the scrambled-ass sound that it was a real file at some point.
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Stealth on July 13, 2004, 11:52:17 am: yeah that's happened to me once or twice.

and yes, it's true what he says: never install codec packs. i did a few months ago, and in the end i was so pissed after i "uninstalled it" that i formatted...
Title: For the love of God.......
Post by: Martinus on July 13, 2004, 07:01:23 pm: [color=66ff00]Nimo isn't all that great, neither is Tsunami IMHO. The kazaa lite set of codecs pretty much cover you for anything and are the way to go. Uninstall everything and then install the Kazaa lite codecs, winamp's dealt with every vid I've thrown at it by way of the kazaa lite codecs.
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