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[Closed] What sort of file is this, from the following description . . . .

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It supposed to be a video file.

The ext is shown as AVI
The size is shown as 713MB

but when I try to play it, media player come up with the "the file you are trying to play has an extension that does not match the file format" box

If I proceed media playes plays a 4 sec clip saying "use widows media player"

If I open the file with RealPlayer I get the same error box, and if I say proceed RealPlayer tries to access the internet.

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Posted : 27/08/2009 9:14 pm
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Have a look at it from a command shell it may have another extension that you can't see


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 9:19 pm
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something that you have downloaded from BBC iPlayer that is looking for the license to allow you to play it? or something along those lines


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 9:20 pm
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a *possibility* is that the library that encoded it will have placed an identifier in the file. Try open the file in notepad (may take a while), see what it says on the first few lines.


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 9:21 pm
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Download the latest DivX codec

or stop downloading pron off Limewire.


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 9:24 pm
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Try [url= http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ]vlc[/url] player - plays pretty much most codecs.


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 9:27 pm
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there is a program called [url= http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ ]'g-spot'[/url] which can tell you all the intimate details of a video file

else VLC will probably play it


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 9:29 pm
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another vote for installing VLC


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 10:18 pm
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Same problem with VLC, but I see now its a licensing issue, as suggested above.

Cheers guys.
My mate is a c0ck 🙂


 
Posted : 27/08/2009 10:22 pm