what format is this movie? how can i find out?

[CryptKeeper]

have you got tmpgenc set to load asf files?

load the file into a text editor
and look for this inside it

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M i c r o s o f t M P E G - 4 V i d e o
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that's what i found inside the asf file i've got here
it should be like 10 lines down

[CryptKeeper]

what happened to my reply?

duh didn't notice it went onto another page

[bagatur]

what text editor do u use to open such a big file?
notepad doesnt do it, even word doesnt open files bigger than
32mb, and wordpad would start opening it slowly - 1%......2%..... -
goes up to 5% and then goes back to 0% and so on...

[CryptKeeper]

norton commander 5.0 (dos version)

[Lonsk]

Don't know if this might help. I've used it a few times to identify movies that wouldn't play or played oddly.

MovieID: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/movieid.html

There are more info viewers here:

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/index.html#encoding_edit

[bagatur]

well, the movie id program said that the file is of unknown format (
what other movie info program can i use there?

[MarioB79]

i have a movie, *.avi, BUT looks like it is not an avi file
divx player wouldnt open it, saying it's either corrupt or wrong
wormat;
divxinfo program would say "the file is no avi";
divxfix program would say it isnt avi either.
BUT it is a movie file since i can play it wmp and windvd.
so looks like the extention is wrong, thus there no clue as to its
movie format.
how can i find it out? what program can i use to see its properties,
like fps, bitrate and the like?

I have the same problems with AVI burned with mode2cdmaker.
The people that wrote that piece of software doesn't write anywhere that if you copy avi from a mode2cdmaker made CD, it will have all the "headers" messed up...
So, according to the RIFF header it's a CDXA and VirtualDub tries to open it like a MPEG.
I've tried to simply remove the CDXA header, but the AVI header is not correct...You should have to edit and correct the header...
I don't know/don't have time do to this, and so I must re-download the files...