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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Falcon on February 03, 2005, 10:07:04 pm

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Falcon on February 03, 2005, 10:07:04 pm

Run into a small problem, everytime I play an AVI file my computer freezes forcing me to reboot. Help?

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Liberator on February 03, 2005, 10:58:27 pm

make sure it's an AVI?

Load it into VirtualDub and recompress it?

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Setekh on February 03, 2005, 11:05:03 pm

*raised eyebrow* Does it happen with a particular video, or any? What program are you trying to use, OS, specs etc.?

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Flaser on February 03, 2005, 11:26:25 pm

Probably one of your Direct Show filters is buggy - whenever a file is loaded that needs it, it can knock the lights out.

I used to have this problem when matroska pack was installed, but vobsub wasn't.

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Fury on February 03, 2005, 11:31:36 pm

http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Liberator on February 03, 2005, 11:51:33 pm

If it won't play with the Klite codec pack, I don't bother...

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Flaser on February 04, 2005, 12:26:10 am

Lib, that's not what he means - whenever he tries to play a specific file his comp crashes.

Also, I'm afraid to tell you that there is no such thing as ultimate codec pack.

Simply put they don't remain up to date forever.

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Liberator on February 04, 2005, 03:26:50 am

They do when someone is actively keeping them up to date.

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Fury on February 04, 2005, 03:57:43 am

If you really want to use a codec pack, go ahead by all means. Its your system you're potentially screwing up. I don't trust any codec pack's quality enough to install that ****e on my systems.

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Liberator on February 04, 2005, 10:43:04 am

The Klite pack has never installed a virus on my system.  That's one of the reasons I like it.

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: karajorma on February 04, 2005, 11:17:32 am

Drag the movie onto your gspot (http://www.headbands.com/g-spot/)

Title: AVI Troubles
Post by: Flaser on February 05, 2005, 02:25:43 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Liberator
The Klite pack has never installed a virus on my system.  That's one of the reasons I like it.

That's not the problem - apparently you never suffered from a poorly done pack like Nimo....

...and trust me that fate will reach any pack. For new standards are developed each year.

Title: sorry for bumping but....
Post by: Falcon on March 11, 2005, 06:43:08 pm

I'm still experiancing trouble, it seems that Windows Media Player and Winamp as well as DivX are freezing up whenever I try to play AVI , WMV or any other files that has a video on it. Again sorry for the bump.

:sigh: