Windows media player cannot support file - HELP!!!

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  • allie181
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • May 2005
    • 5

    Windows media player cannot support file - HELP!!!

    I've got an avi file. When I try & play it in Windows Media Player it says it doesn't support the file, and that I may not have the correct codec.

    I have used GSpot to try & determine what codec the file requires, but GSpot says it is not a valid avi file.

    Can anyone tell me what to try next to try & get this file to play?

    Thanks in advance!
  • tigerman8u
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • Aug 2003
    • 2122

    #2
    load the file in Virtualdub or one of it's variants (I use Vbud mpeg2) and look at the file info. post it here. try moving the slider in vdub and see if any video is present

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    • allie181
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • May 2005
      • 5

      #3
      I tried to open it in virtualdub but got an error message "cannot detect file type". Can i try anything else or is the file simply not playable?

      Thanks!

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      • LT. Columbo
        Demigod of Digital Video
        • Nov 2004
        • 10671

        #4
        sounds like a bad file---i'd delete it and move on....
        "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
        Columbo moments...
        "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
        "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
        (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)


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        • mastercontrol
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Jun 2005
          • 47

          #5
          You could try renaming it with different extensions, like .rm, .mov and see if any players you have will pick up on it. It could be a misnamed file in a proprietary format that Media Player, VirtualDub and GSpot can't understand. If that doesn't work, then it's probably a fake file, so do what Columbo suggested and just delete it.

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          • tigerman8u
            Lord of Digital Video
            Lord of Digital Video
            • Aug 2003
            • 2122

            #6
            you can try VLC (videolan) free. It uses it's own codecs and plays most anything. If that doesn't work, without looking at the file, I agree with columbo

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