Playing Downloaded Video File.. Help!

[andrea121]

Hi, I downloaded a movie that I want to play in WMV format. I have Windows Vista 64-bit, and tried playing the video with VLC and MPC, which both gave error messages and played only the audio, not the video! VLC did not give me any specific error information, but Media Player Classic gave me the following message after saying it did not have the proper codec to play the file. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Video: RealVideo 4 800x484 29.97fps 674Kbps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {30345652-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 236544
cbFormat: 122

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0)
dwBitRate: 674200
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 333665

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 40
biWidth: 800
biHeight: 484
biPlanes: 3
biBitCount: 12
biCompression: RV40
biSizeImage: 580800
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

pbFormat:
0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0020: 98 49 0a 00 00 00 00 00 61 17 05 00 00 00 00 00 ˜I......a.......
0030: 28 00 00 00 20 03 00 00 e4 01 00 00 03 00 0c 00 (... ...ä.......
0040: 52 56 34 30 c0 dc 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 RV40ÀÜ..........
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00|00 00 00 22 56 49 44 4f ..........."VIDO
0060: 52 56 34 30 03 20 01 e4 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 1d RV40. .ä........
0070: f8 58 01 08 10 20 40 00 40 00 øX... @.@.

[Baldrick]

Looks like real video. Tried realplayer?

Or else use mediainfo to identify what video codec it contains.

[andrea121]

Wow, thanks Baldrick for such a quick response. I got Realplayer SP and it plays fine!

[greymalkin]

wow..I didn't know anyone used realvideo anymore!

[redwudz]

Real Video is still fairly popular in some parts of the near east. I see it with animes at times. I convert them all to a more 'usable' format. Real Alternative Player is still around if you want to avoid all the '*stuff' that comes with Real's own player. (*Such as wanting to take over playback of all your files.)