AVI file codec Problem

[Rata]

Hello. Hope you are enjoying your Sunday. I'm not. I seem to have run into a bit of trouble playing a particular Avi file a friend gave me. At first glance it doesn’t appear to be a complicated thing but...

BS Player gives an error message everywhere I try and open it and VLC Player opens it up and plays a mute audio track, meaning, the cursors travels across like it would be playing something, but no video or sound appear.

G-spot gives me this.



And just before the media player gives me an error message this little white square thing appears in my task bar. (The one on the left)



I'm fairly positive this is not a corrupt file (but can’t really tell for sure). It’s supposedly coded in Xvid and I have the latest XviD codec’s installed, also OGG. I don’t know what the sound is coded on but I guess VRB/MP3.

I wanted to know any methods available in order to find what proper codec’s I need and/or what I should do to play this file.

As you can probably tell my knowledge is very limited so any help would be appreciated, I apologize in advance for any lack of file information but I really couldn’t tell what would be relevant besides the codec used.

Thank you for your time.

[Soopafresh]

It's not an AVI file, probably. The extension was changed to AVI, however. Change the extension to .ZIP and see if you can unzip it.

[Rata]

No dice. Not with Zip, Rar, Mpg, Mkv or Mov.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll keep trying to figure out what gives.

[junkmalle]

Use a hex editor to look at the first few lines of the file. Many file types have distinctive tags. For example, AVI start out with "RIFF", RAR files start with "RAR!", ZIP files start with "PK", MPEG files usually have "00 00 01 ba", etc.

If you have VirtualDub you can use it's hex editor: Tools -> Hex Editor.

[Abond]

The little square is OggDShow filter. Most probably you have vorbis sound in ogm (or maybe in avi) container. You can try to open the file in VirtualDubMod and look at streams-stream list to have an idea what you have inside. I don't think renaming it will change anything. Your gspot is old one, try to analyse the file with v2.52 beta 1