Any movie I download won't play. I'm not talking about a burnt movie that I'm trying to play. I'm talking about a movie I've downloaded and trying to play from my harddrive. It doesn't matter where I've download the file from. I've used bearshare, limewire, kazaa and all the files won't play. I've tried using windows media player, real player and winamp to play the files. None of them will play the files. At first I thought there was something wrong with the specifc file, but after download several different movies and seeing that none of the worked. I know thats not true. I've downloaded AVICodec and GSpot... but I'm not sure how to use the program. So that didn't do me much good in trying to find out what codec I need or even if its a codec issue. When I try to play a file using windows media player the time counter that counts how long the movie plays.. does work, but the screen is black, no picture and no sound. Here is what AVICodec says about one file I'm trying to play. C:\Documents and Settings\Brenton\Desktop\TMPJust-Friends-2005.mpg File : 665 MB (0.00 B), duration: 0:00:00, type: MPG, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 56 % Video : 0.00 B, 1150 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 352*240 (4:3), MPG1 = MPEG 1 (VCD), Supported Audio : 0.00 B, 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x51 = Mpeg-1 audio Layer 2 [0xc0], Supported Please help me asap.. Thanking you in advance.
Looks like an almost (audio should be 224k) standard NTSC VCD. Windows comes with both an MPEG-1 video codec and mpeg audio decoder. If it is playing, but just black then it sounds like a fake file to me. Try compressing it with winrar. If it is fake it should compress very well. If it is real it should compress hardly at all. You could also try mplayer or VLC. They both use internal decoders/splitters so any filter conflicts/problems shouldn't effect them.
It compressed well. I tried some other files that I've had trouble with playing and windows media player is saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."
The files will play now from the harddrive. But, I have a new problem now. After the movies have been burnt to the dvd+r disk and played back, the video and sound is messed up. The sound has a high pitched hissing in the background and it sounds somewhat muffled. I'm using Nero-7.0.8.2 / Nero Vison 4
