trouble with .avi and .mpg files

[scottie255]

When I dowloaded a movie and tried to watch it, it came out as just audio. I downloaded a .avi file the first time. However, I tried to download a music video, which was a .mpg file. This worked perfectly, so I thought this was my problem. When try to download a regular movie that is a .mpg file, i says "remotely queued" or "more sources needed", and it won't download. Please tell me what I am doing wrong, you ca e-mail me or post, thank you!

[Krell]

scottie255

First off remove your email addy unless you want to get spammed off the face of the earth, like aol isnt bad enough as is. We have private messages here to use. It's not sound to reveal any personal info on a BBS, here or anywhere. Just getting a reply from your hotmail gives me your IP address, even on aol.

Next, you are addressing two different things. The first is that you need various codecs and decompressors, depending on what a movie was encoded with. There are bundles of these such as Nimo. Browse thru the Audio/Video forums for a while, read this first.

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5626&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

Secondly it sounds like you may be using Kazaa, confirm this, tell us a wee bit about your system, what operating system, anything that you can. And be patient, this will get sorted out correctly but not all in one post.

cheers

[The Hunter]

Done.

[scottie255]

yes i do have kazaa- whichever the latest version is (I just recently downloaded it). about my system, I have pretty much all of the latest ...Windows Media Player, 56K (trying to upgrade to cable), and i also have cd making software. hopefully this will help.

[scottie255]

i do not have a dvd-rw drive, if that helps you. also, in reading some of those websites, I am wondering if divX is better off for me than kazaa, could you also tell me the difference between the two, if any, and which is better? i took a look at which codecs i have on my computer now, and i guess they all came with my system but there is a whole load of them (mostly by windows and microsoft). thanks for any help you can give.

[Krell]

Sure scottie255, NP.

Kazaa is a P2P app that lets you share and download with other people.

The codecs are what windows uses to . . ."expand" out and interpret a video or audio file.

For the most part, they are totally unrelated.

So, start by getting that Alpha Direct show filter, and install it.

Then get Nimo5.8, and do the most BASIC install. You can always add something from it in the future if you need to.

Now you have prob 90% of all codecs you need, without a big screwup.

Download files then move them to a different drive if you have more than one hard drive installed.

As far as "remotely queued" or "more sources needed, it means . . .. WAIT . . . . or right click to Find More Resources Now.


And last, just read, hang out, it will all make sense in time.

cheers

[scottie255]

do i need to downlod anyting from divX or is kazaa good enough? I have heard qui bad thigs about kaza since researching this on the net. also, can you please give me th link forthe two things i need to dowload, am having ome trouble finding them from the first link.

[phalkon30]

One quick question, do you use Kazaa, or Kazaa lite? (KMD or K-lite)

If you're using kazaa, you have no idea how much faster k-lite will be, plus k-lite has more features and NO SPYWARE

First, uninstall kazaa, then run a program such as adaware, or spybot, and then install K-lite

Adaware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot http://security.kolla.de
K-lite http://www.k-lite.tk

[scottie255]

phalkon30 or Krell....can you give me the link to Alpha Direct and Nimo 5.8 please? thank you for all of your help so far though

[scottie255]

Krell..I didn't get that link...nothing showed up....probably stupid aol (a lot of links don't show).....

[Krell]

My bad, I was looking at the wrong page dangit, now I lost it.


So here goes:

Nimo
http://nimo.titanesk.com/nimo/
http://nimo.titanesk.com/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=16

WARNING !!!
There is an INCOMPATIBILITY with the "TFM Audio Filter v1.0 beta 7" and the Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher 0.95, DO NOT Install them together, chose one of them only if needed
Do not chose the G400 Filter if you do not have G400 graphic cards
Do not install the Bicubic Resizer Filter id you do not have any problem about video upside-down.




Alpha FFDirectshow
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ffdshow/dsp2dshow-20020930.exe?download

[scottie255]

hey again krell......ok i downlaoded in two parts.....on the first part i get sound and no picture....second part i get nothing....i downloaded alpha direct, but not nimo....do i need to download that or anything else? give me some help please man.....thanx

[Krell]

Ahhhhhh

Delete the movie title name mi amigo. thx.

Now that you have some codecs, its time to look at those two unmentionable files to see exactly WHAT they are encoded with.

Use the G-Spot or AVIcodec util, and browse to the movie part in question, click it once. The util will read the file for you, and tell you that the video is "DivX" or "XviD" and that the audio is AC3, etc.

Now you can launch the Nimo installer, and add JUST the AC3, see if that helps.

It is possible that these two files are not of the same author, and in fact not encoded the same, who knows, till you use one of these apps.

Also, try a movie on one player, say ZOOM, and then try in another Player, like Windows Media Player.


Start by getting both G-Spot and AVIcodec, then get your info on these files,

cheers

[scottie255]

this may be annyoing to you........but im not sure what youre talking about with "gspot" or "avicodec".....i can tell you that if i right click the movie in properties it tells me the audio codec is MPEG Layer-3 Decoder 0008 and video is unknown. .....im gonna need more step by step directions.........sry........

[Krell]

Not annoying me, just take your time, and stay here:
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5626&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

Always read that first . . . . the links you need are there, along with a lot of good sites for info.

Im gone for a while, read that, find G-spot, and AVIcodec, get them, I will be on laters,

cheers

[tree hugging hippie crap]

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/gspot21.zip

this is a direct link for downloading the gspot file. when you unzip and install it, run it and load the movie. it will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the movie, including codecs needed and whether or not they are installed. great little app....

[scottie255]

hey "tree hugging hippie crap"......i got GSpot to work.....it tod me that i have the video and audio codecs downlaoded.......however the video still does not show.......what is wrong?

[phalkon30]

Out of curiosity, where did you download the movies from? did you get them from a sig2dat quicklink, or just search and download?

I've seen a lot of movies recently that were downloaded without sig2dat, and they had all the codecs.....for a blank movie! not all the movies out there are real, its possible you got a fake one

www.fasttrackmovies.com has a very large list, if you can't find a movie there, search the forum, if you can't find it there, it most likely isn't out there yet

[scottie255]

i downloaded the divx package including the divx player, tried to play it on there.........and ta-dah........the movie plays perfectly.....sry forany hassle for anyone.......but if you get another question like this......i would reccommend the divx package.....thanks to all who helped.......

[Krell]

NP scottie255

There are different versions of DivX, and diff players also behave differently, so theres no hard and fast rule about this.

Most of us who do movies, have been thru this dozens and dozens of times, and usually have a combination that works for us undividually, with some commonality, but its difficult to convey that from scratch.

Glad to see you on your way, hang on to those utils, you will need them in the furture !

cheers