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  1. Master of my domain thoughton's Avatar
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    I thought VLC could play mpeg2s?!?! I havent tried for a while but I was convinced it could before.

    However today, when testing an mpeg2 with ac3 sound that always-crashing peice of crap known as VLC0.8.1 played the sound only, and gave me a window saying video codec not supported

    (The video plays in QT player, but without sound).
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    Of course it plays mpeg2s. How else could it play DVDs? My VLC 0.8.1 also plays all the ffmpegX MPEG2s/AC3s I throw at it. Maybe something wrong with your MPEG2s?

    The encoding part of VLC doesn't seem to be working that well though. I used it to convert an AVI that has a bad spot that QT and ffmpegX doesn't like. I got an AVI that looks great, it passes the 'bad spot' and finishes. But QT won't even open the VLC AVI. MPlayer, VLC, and ffmpegX does. I used the VLC QT container, DIV3/MP3 setting, but QT just crashes when opening the file. When I ran the new AVI through ffmpegX to encode to MPEG2, it stopped 18 minutes from the end. The known bad spot was around the 65 minute mark, way back from where ffmpegX quit. Oh well. Bad AVIs, how unique
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    It's odd. I eventually gave up trying to test it and just authored and burnt the sucker. The flippin' DVD plays in VLC! Argh!
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