Very troubling "avi" question.

[noobly]

Yes I am a noob, so forgive me if I am unaware of what is going on, but I have a problem playing an avi file on my computer.

I have every codec that makes avi files able to play, yet for some reason this ONE file refuses to play.

It has said that it is an "empty file", but I don't exactly know what to do with that information.

It won't play in VLC, Classic Media Player, or the other 547786763567879 players I have. I'm stuck, and I need suggestions.

If you know anything or have some way to help me, please feel free to let me know.

Much abliged.

-Noobly noob

[Baldrick]

have you identified the video and audio codec in the avi with latest gspot?
what program said "empty file"?

[hanugro]

Yes I am a noob, so forgive me if I am unaware of what is going on, but I have a problem playing an avi file on my computer.

It won't play in VLC, Classic Media Player, or the other 547786763567879 players I have. I'm stuck, and I need suggestions.

-Noobly noob

Man even VLC can't play it then pretty serious. I have one avi file that only VLC can play it. Sorry can't help you.

[tgm4883]

I have every codec that makes avi files able to play, yet for some reason this ONE file refuses to play.
-Noobly noob

You didn't by any chance install a codec pack did you?

[CobraPilot]

"It has said it's an empty file." WHAT has said it's an empty file? Windows Explorer?

Do you by chance have a zero-byte file, indicating a bad download/conversion/etc.?

I was once perplexed by a similar problem until I realized the file I was trying to open, although it showed on my desktop with the appropriate file name, was actually JUST the file name: Nothing in the file itself; i.e., a zero-byte file.

Alternately, is the file size more-or-less what you expect it to be? Video files, regardless of format, tend to be fairly large if not downright enormous. If, say, you've got a 15-minute file of almost any format, and a file size is only 5kb, it's an incomplete file which your codecs can't decipher.

[drjtech]

I have every codec that makes avi files able to play, yet for some reason this ONE file refuses to play.
-Noobly noob

You didn't by any chance install a codec pack did you?

That was my first thought as well. But then my second thought was that it actually is an empty avi file, or at least an avi file so currupted that not even the header can be read. Baldrick is on the right track to suggest gspot.

-drjtech

[SCDVD]

I have every codec that makes avi files able to play,

I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but if you have installed too many codecs in your system, it can cause strange problems. It can cause conflicts and playing malfuctions. That is why codec packs are so bad. You should only install codecs as you specifically need them. A good way to determine if a codec is needed is to use GSpot to check the video file. It will tell you which codec is used in the file.

[noobly]

"It has said it's an empty file." WHAT has said it's an empty file? Windows Explorer?

Do you by chance have a zero-byte file, indicating a bad download/conversion/etc.?

I was once perplexed by a similar problem until I realized the file I was trying to open, although it showed on my desktop with the appropriate file name, was actually JUST the file name: Nothing in the file itself; i.e., a zero-byte file.

Alternately, is the file size more-or-less what you expect it to be? Video files, regardless of format, tend to be fairly large if not downright enormous. If, say, you've got a 15-minute file of almost any format, and a file size is only 5kb, it's an incomplete file which your codecs can't decipher.

Ahh, sorry I should have elaborated about the empty file thing.

When I couldn't play it, I had tried a lot of stuff so I was running out of ideas and then out of complete curiosity, I imported the file into Windows Movie Maker (eew) to see if it would somehow magically divide the file into scenes as usual and then I could save it and all would be well with the world.

But because I suck, lol, it said "This is an empty file" basically.

Oh, and to elaborate on the other thing as well, not involved in the above post, the file is actually just above 600 MB, and so it isn't just a little 5KB thing....and that's all the information I can really think of.