movie problem

[rainbowdemon]

I just downloaded a movie I've been wanting to see. But no matter what I do, it won't play. After the title, it says .SVCD.TS-Centropy.DIVX.XTech. It claims to be a Winamp file.

Any ideas?

:hole

[vipp]

Did you try videolan player? Usually that one will play files that others won't.

http://www.videolan.org/

[rainbowdemon]

Been using VLC for a long time. It won't touch this one either.

[vipp]

Then I don't know, but I'm sure someone will come along that can help ;)

[rainbowdemon]

I just recently got dsl. Now I can d/l movies. The first one played, but it was in italian. The second one won't play at all. Not exactly a great start!!


LOL :blah

[napho]

What's the extension? It probably should end in .avi

[vipp]

Yeah, I got some strange files when I first started too. :blah

[rainbowdemon]

The first post in this thread is all it says after the title.

[vipp]

He meant change it to .avi

(he's not always clear) :D

[rainbowdemon]

Just right click on the file and change it like that?

[vipp]

Yup, just change it to .avi on the end and see if it plays then :)

[napho]

Just right click/rename and make sure it ends in .avi

[rainbowdemon]

Nothing. I'm about ready to delete this mess and start over!!

[vipp]

I didn't think that would work, but it was worth a try. I've never seen an extension like you've got there. From now on make sure you are getting either .avi or mpeg files, (or .rar or .tar if you are using irc). :)

[napho]

I did a search for it http://www.google.ca/search?q=SVCD.TS-Centropy.DIVX.XTech&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
that thing ends in .smi

Could be it

[vipp]

I did a search for it http://www.google.ca/search?q=SVCD.TS-Centropy.DIVX.XTech&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
that thing ends in .smi

Could be it

Are you suggesting he try changing the extension to .smi?

If you are, say so.

:upside

[rainbowdemon]

So it's pretty much unusable?

[napho]

On 2nd thought a streaming media extension probably is a bad idea. waaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[napho]

Since that might be a Real file you can try renaming it to a Real extension like .rt, rm, rp, rv, rm, rmvb. Maybe 1 of them will work

[method77]

smi is a Mac only extension

[rainbowdemon]

.smi is for Apple?

[method77]

Shrink Wrap Disk Image File

[rainbowdemon]

Oh well, we tried.

[napho]

There are alot of mixed signals. Real, Qt, streaming. txt files. Mac. I'd just try renaming it to various extensions and maybe 1 will finally work. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=.smi+file&meta=

[rainbowdemon]

Thanks, everybody!

[crackerjacker]

get gspot its a freeware program that allows you to tell you the type of codecs required for it. Even if its in a different extension u can try it.

[miss_silver]

rainbowdemon

Maybe it's an svcd or a vcd file, try the .mpg extention.

[Al13]

You probably need a codec. Go to www.headbands.com/gspot/ to download gspot, this is a proggie that will tell you what kind of file it is and what you need to play it. Open the file with gspot and then post what it says so I can tell you what you need.

Peace

[rainbowdemon]

This is from GSpot.

[[USA]nerdboy1987]

Download Xvid from http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html Download Divx from http://www.divx.com/ Download AVI preview from http://www.avipreview.com/ and play your freaking movie!
Also try using a VCD player download WinDVD demo and try loading the file that way!

[method77]

quite an attitude huh nerd?

The solution is not that though

[Miniver]

because of the file size and because it says svcd it is most likely a .bin file. Change the name and use video lan. It's very strange that it says divx and svcd since they are non compatible formats.

[fujow]

you say it claims to be a winamp file. I assume you have winamp installed, try uninstalling winamp and playing the file.

[rainbowdemon]

WinAmp came with my comp. I don't use it much anyway.

[napho]

VideoFixer says it fixes screwed up videos. This should be a good test. It worked once for me.


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[Popabook]

Use this site, it may help with a few of your questions, it helped me with what I was finding on mIRC. :) http://www.videohelp.com/

[shawners]

ive downloaded movies that would be two different extensions or tells you to rename it. Look at the other files, and see if you find one thats in a normal extension, like .avi.. or mpg. . It may be an iso file.

[simon_says_horrible]

yeah, maybe it's an image file (iso, bin)

[ferrarimodena360]

centropy......i know the movie ur talking about, i think its a bin file....wrong extension

[ferrarimodena360]

yeah its a bin file...... search google for <movie> centropy bin - and u will see