I've downloaded a movie clip of 658 mb, when i play it on either windows media player or real player the progress/seek bar moves and then it stops after 17 seconds. Any suggestions please.

Oh by the way I have no idea what I,m doing this is the first Forum I have entered

Bandit1200

Download, install and use this media player, it will play most things.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/



UK Bob

Ive Downloaded VLC Media Player but it still cannot find anything. Its 658mb so there must be something on it

Bandit1200

There are a lot of fake files on the P2P network and your 658mb film file could be nothing more than a fake, and I have downloaded fake film files before.

Get this utility, called G Spot, and run it on your film file, this will tell you whether you have a genuine or fake file:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm


UK Bob

Ok now I'm totally confused

Can u let me know what all this means

Print Screen from GSpot Attached

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gspot2 printscreen.png (54.6 KB, 555 views)

Messed that one up I'll try again

Ive pressed RENDER and this was the result

Video Src Type MPEG1Payload Audio Src MPEG1AudioPayload

Video Path [S]-->MPEG-1 Stream Splitter --> MPEG Video Decoder --> [R]

Adio Path [S]-->MPEG-1 Stream Splitter --> MPEG Audio Decoder --> [R]

What does that mean in English

Bandit1200

Can you do a screen print using MS Paint (save it as a jpg file), without it I have no idea what you are on about.




UK Bob

You learn sopmething everday, Ive spent ages trying to reduce the size of print screen. Hope this is a little bit clearer

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Well Bandit1200

Seems that your file is a a proper video file, your next step is to download some codecs, like Nimo, and install them. Use the link in one of my previous post, minus "download/GSpot.htm", to find a codec package.



UK Bob

Downloaded
Nimo50Build9Beta1 and XP Codec Pack 1.2.5. Still no joy, any more suggestions