vlc player wont play avi

[natty]

how can i get VLC player to play avi movies it plays the audio but no picture

[jman98]

Install MediaInfo and use it to open a file that won't play. Post the results here so we can take a look.

VLC can handle AVI fine, so this could mean one of the following.
1) Your file is corrupted.
2) Your file was deliberately made in a way so that it won't play back. Hollywood has been known to seed torrent sites with files that can't play correctly.
3) The person who made the AVI file is incompetent and they did something when making it that is causing it to not play.

[Selur]

4) your avi contains a video format which is not supported through libav

[natty]

Install MediaInfo and use it to open a file that won't play. Post the results here so we can take a look.

VLC can handle AVI fine, so this could mean one of the following.
1) Your file is corrupted.
2) Your file was deliberately made in a way so that it won't play back. Hollywood has been known to seed torrent sites with files that can't play correctly.
3) The person who made the AVI file is incompetent and they did something when making it that is causing it to not play.

sorry for the delay in replying

Selur
Re: vlc player wont play avi

4) your avi contains a video format which is not supported through libav

whats this libay mean what do you download or do with it

[Selur]

Seems like 'xtor' video codec is not supported by libav, which is the reason why VLC can't handle the file.
From what I gathered googling around it seems like DXtory comes with DirectShow Decoder filters, so playback with DirectShow based decoders should be possible.

whats this libay mean what do you download or do with it

libav is basically the video backend of VLC. If libav can't handle the content, neither can VLC.

[FUN8OY]

hi there, thank you for my registration!

I need help with these 2 files that don't even show much info in "MediaInfo" ...

When I open them with VLC or any other program, nothing happens!

Any ideas? Here is the info it did spew out:

Complete name : F:\Transworld Motocross - Crush.avi
File size : 618 MiB

and

Complete name :DELETED AS WAREZ


Moderator redwudz

[Selur]

MediaInfo normally shows the header information of media files, if the headers are missing it only shows the size, like in you case.-> Probably fake/dummy files,...

[redwudz]

FUNBOY, please read our rules before posting, specifically about Warez.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/72386-Forum-rules-Acceptable-Use-Policy-(AUP)

Ignoring them can get you permanently banned.

Moderator redwudz