Anyone have this problem with codecs before?

[I'm Joe Dirt]

I started downloading a certain video lecture by a certain PUA, and the first epsidoe started and all I got was like 2 seconds of audio (like a pop sound), and WMP said the file was 14 hours long and the visualization faded away and the rest of the file was silent.

Anyone have this problem befor?

 

[NYC Dude]

What format is the video in? .avi? Since there are so many different codecs for .avi, find out which one the video is encoded in and download the codec. That should fix the problem.

 

[I'm Joe Dirt]

When I go to file properties, it says "Summary items not available for the source files"

hmm...

 

[MetalFortress]

Usually DivX should work for tricky AVIs...

 

[I'm Joe Dirt]

Yeah, Ive been using the latest version of Divx... this sucks

 

[Vincent]

Are you playing it in the divx player? That's the best way to play things that aren't working very well in WMV

 

[diablo]

They do the same thing for mp3's... the company producing it makes tons of duplicate files that are all corrupt, which is why it shows as being 14 hours long. Basically, they flood a network with the bogus files which people then download and share, which give more people the crap files... just like the mp3's which have static in the middle of the song. Not like I'd know about those since I don't download music illegally, but from things I've heard...

 

[legolas]

Use GSpot http://www.divx-digest.com/software/gspot.html to find out what codecs you need. I also use the k-lite codec pack http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/ to get all the codecs out there.

 

[Page]

try VLC media player:

videolan.org

 

[Joe The Homophobe]

are any of those codecs free?