A movie that can't seem to work?

[Fatboyslack54]

I downloaded a movie (8mile) and its the real copy but when i try to play it on real one, winamp3, divx, shareaza media player, all it does is shows a black screen and the time just keeps ticking without anything but a black screen? does anybody know what i could do to make it work? or is it just a bad file?

[phalkon30]

did you have any audio either?

I recently got a copy of Harry Potter 2 that did the same thing, could this be the next thing from the RIAA? think about it, same file size, possibly even same file name, but blank data

if you right clicked on it, did it tell you anything about how it was encoded, or what format (i forgot to look before I deleted it)

anybody else get this or have an idea?

[Fatboyslack54]

Phalkon thanks for the reply but no there was no audio, there was nothing but a black screen? wtf is this should i delete it or could i fix it? what did you do on your harry potter movie?

[Caitlyn Marble]

try using the nimo codec pack. its got every obscure codec there is. if you are convinced the movie is genuine you might be needing a codec.

[wonderboy2005]

both of you whould try the BSplayer from www.doom9.org under the downloads section , its the first one under media players. it works great for me, and no additional files are needed (usually)

[BlueLieu]

Fatboyslack54 - How do you know it is the "reel deal" if you can not watch it? Did it play on someone else's machine?

My suggestion is to find a copy of NanDub and open the file. If the index is missing/corrupt it will rebuild it automagically. Otherwise, you can move keyframe by keyframe and see if there is anything video on it.

BUT, the fact that you had no audio suggests to me that it is a bad copy. The video codec may not be installed, but most audio is MP3, WAV, AC3 or sometimes Ogg/Vorbis and the grand likelihood is that you could hear the audio at least.

[phalkon30]

Originally posted by Caitlyn Marble
try using the nimo codec pack. its got every obscure codec there is. if you are convinced the movie is genuine you might be needing a codec.

i have nimo codec pack, i have virtually all the codecs the net has to offer installed, ive tried several media players also, these are just bad copies of movies i think

i just deleted mine, i honestly think its the IRAA (or RIAA or whatever theyre called), why rename the file when you can share one that is very close to the movie but blank

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by phalkon30


i have nimo codec pack, i have virtually all the codecs the net has to offer installed, ive tried several media players also, these are just bad copies of movies i think

i just deleted mine, i honestly think its the IRAA (or RIAA or whatever theyre called), why rename the file when you can share one that is very close to the movie but blank

To the dude who posted the question: It's prolly a fake....try again.


Dude, every HP 2 movie is a fake! LOL Theres only 2 *real* copys that I know of..... 1.5gb - 2 mpegs and a dumbed down version of the mpeg one that's around 450mb's combined. The rest are just MPAA/RIAA trash. What they do is set up a PC on a FAST connection (T1? MaybeT3? Or hell maybe even OC3) and have it share crap files. There just uncompressed AVI files going at between 3/4 fps with uncompressed WAV format sound.....your getting a blank screen cuz it's just that.....blank LOL


Later

[twuckDrifer]

A lot of movies that are still in theater seem to be encoded with .smr. If you havent tried that already.

Hope it helps.

[phalkon30]

Originally posted by twuckDrifer
A lot of movies that are still in theater seem to be encoded with .smr. If you havent tried that already.

Hope it helps.

i guess i didnt realize .smr was a file extension, or a movie format/encoder, i dont think it was included in nimo if this is the case....anybody else confirm this? (not that i doubt you, i just like to have more than one source)

[twuckDrifer]

I found the smr codec on kazaa. I have watched a few movies on it that i could not watch with anything else. All the movies i did watch wre about 140 meg each,and were always in two pieces.

[phalkon30]

hmmm, while i dont think this was an smr movie, thats a good thing to keep in mind, thanx man

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