Too weird: RealPlayer won't play AVIs

Brigid · Post by **Brigid** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:46 pm

Yesterday I tried playing some AMVs that were in AVI format and got the following message:

"The video for this file cannot be played. Would you like to check to see if there is an update available for this video?"

Thing is, I've played these videos before without any problems.

Anyone have an idea what the problem is? I've got quite a few really fun videos that I'd like to be able to watch that I can't right now.

PS. These files can't be played in Windows Media Player, either.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:53 pm

get gspot (click the pic in my sig)
it should tell you what codec was used to encode it (and if you have that codec)

Epical Zamora · Post by **Epical Zamora** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:11 pm

Um, real player sucks? Why the hell would you use real?

VLC Player will solve all your problems.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:26 pm

Epical Zamora wrote:Um, real player sucks? Why the hell would you use real?

VLC Player will solve all your problems.

VLC is worse than Real, IMO (but then again, my Real Player never annoys me with ads for some reason). Get MPC.

Brigid · Post by **Brigid** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:02 pm

Hmm. Actually, aside from trying to access the internet every time I start it this is the first time I've had trouble with Real.

If possible, I'd just like to get it to work again. But I will look at what you've suggested.

Brigid · Post by **Brigid** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:08 pm

P.S. Just used GSpot. Nice little program. Seems I somehow managed to not install the DivX codec. How'd that happen? Anyway, it's an easy enough fix.

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:06 am

I preffer Zoomplayer

Scott Green · Post by **Scott Green** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:27 am

Bauzi wrote:I preffer Zoomplayer

well everyone has his own tastes :O
Im using WMP and VLC =P

DayWalker B. · Post by **DayWalker B.** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:46 pm

Scott Green wrote:
Bauzi wrote:I preffer Zoomplayer
well everyone has his own tastes :O
Im using WMP and VLC =P

I'm using the same two for some unknown reason. Both are annoying me sometimes though, but VLC a little more often. I'm too lazy to try something new, so I guess they're doing their job just fine.

Epical Zamora · Post by **Epical Zamora** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:55 pm

My only beef with VLC Player is that it gets excessively pixelly in fullscreen. It plays almost everything.

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