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Old February 6th, 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by MacCurious
What program do people recommend for uncompressing videos.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=62947

Has anyone tried to read such an mpg file in a text editor for some kind of 'end of file' marker that causes quicktime to misread the file, or something like that?

Sounds like more of these 'corrupt' files are being shared. VLC or mPlayer will usually play them fine.

Last edited by stief; February 6th, 2004 at 01:52 AM.
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