Page 1 of Help With Playing a movie using VLC..

Normally i just d/l my movies from various bit torrent sites....

Downloaded Harry Potter and I now pronounce you chuck and Larry last week.

Windows media player comes up with a message saying it doesnt recognise the file and it doesnt have the codec.....so i thought I`d try this VLC lark.........um.....It doesnt actually do much when I right click the movie icon and `open with ` VLC....

Can you tell me what i`m doing wrong please ? :)

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does vlc open, but then it doesn`t actually play it?

if you play it in media player do you get sound, but no picture?

maybe the file you downloaded is broken/incomplete.

you could use gspot to see what codec(s) are needed.

it`s also part of the k-lite mega codec pack which will let you play the movie in media player or media player classic that comes with it.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 11th December 2007, 14:24

it opens it and plays it for about 30 seconds........well it plays something for about 30 secs but not the movie......:/

It just shows you that moving bar thing that moves across to the right as it `plays`.......

I`m confused ....

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Companies that have p**sed me off so much that I will never use them again and I hope you dont either....
Jacks Fish & Chips of Cambridge ridiculously overpriced and overpackaged chips. £1.20 for a stupidly small portion of chips - they need to go up north for a good lesson in fish and chips
Alloy Bodies of Manchester - The Grand Daddy & Benchmark for shockingly poor customer service.
Capital Bank Leasing who are part of [B]BOS & are f**ing useless & struggle to action the smallest request but are fantastically efficient at taking money out of my account
[B]Abbey National Absolutely diabolical service - how hard is it to change £60 of coins into notes????
....more coming soon no doubt.....

what about mediaplayer player though, does that not play teh audio even? Audio is often mp3 so that gets played with no picture.

dl the k-lite mega codec pack, if that won`t let you play it dl the torrent again as it sounds like you got a broken file

if you right click and do properties, does it tell you anything useful in any of the tabs?

You`ve downloaded a fake file; or at least it definitely sounds like it with VLC not playing it (VLC plays everything so need to install codecs yourself) and the file being 30secs long but 700MB. Some fake files are just an annoyance, but some play something like "You need to install NameOfPlayer to play this file, go to Website". The con is to get you to install their dodgy software and call a premium rate number to activate it.



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This item was edited on Tuesday, 11th December 2007, 15:41

well looks like i had two fake files thanks for your advice guys :)

Tried playing some tat i recorded on my phone years ago and it played it fine so, yeah .... i`m assuming they`re both fake which is an arse :(

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Companies that have p**sed me off so much that I will never use them again and I hope you dont either....
Jacks Fish & Chips of Cambridge ridiculously overpriced and overpackaged chips. £1.20 for a stupidly small portion of chips - they need to go up north for a good lesson in fish and chips
Alloy Bodies of Manchester - The Grand Daddy & Benchmark for shockingly poor customer service.
Capital Bank Leasing who are part of [B]BOS & are f**ing useless & struggle to action the smallest request but are fantastically efficient at taking money out of my account
[B]Abbey National Absolutely diabolical service - how hard is it to change £60 of coins into notes????
....more coming soon no doubt.....

You can find some interesting stuff to watch on www.stage6.com if you don`t have anything to play. There`s also a nice feature in VLC that a lot of people overlook..

Start the VLC player
Go to view Playlist
Go to manage services discovery Shoutcast TV Listings
Pick something to watch

This item was edited on Wednesday, 12th December 2007, 10:26