Movie files I can't play - help!

**Deviant Esq** · 15th February 2006, 11:06

God damnit (and many expletives)!!

I've been downloading the occasional video file from eMule (a program kind of like KaZaA but without ads and spyware), but it seems three quarters of the video files I download refuse to play! Grr! When I open the file, Windows Media Player tries to acquire the licence, then I get a stupid popup window for some lame porn site.

I've tried playing the files in VLC Media Player and Real Player as well, but neither of them works either.

Getting hacked off, don't want to sit here waiting for something to download, spending valuable megs of my download cap, only for the thing to refuse to play.

Anyone got any ideas as to a solution?

**onearmedbandit** · 15th February 2006, 11:36

Tried divX player?

**sugilite:Me** · 15th February 2006, 11:39

Just sounds like you need the right codec to decompress the file (movie)
There is a cool little utility called G-spot that tells you what codec the movie uses and if you have it installed on your computer, or if you need to download it. It's free and is only a 213 kb download.
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

**Deviant Esq** · 15th February 2006, 11:50

OAB: Haven't tried divX player.

Seems like a good little program Sugilite, but what if this happens (see attached)?

**Sniper** · 15th February 2006, 12:15

Some files are leeched from porn sites (where have you been) hence the reason for the porn banners. The file will not play with out a license, which you aquire from the said sites.

**WRT** · 15th February 2006, 12:23

I dont use emule or any of those kazaa-style programs any more, you never get what you ask for and they are too full of leechers. I *ahem* know of people that use bit torrents and swear by them, apparently azureus is a good client, and then just use sites like www.torrentspy.com to search for what you want.

DC++ used to be great, before it went too big. Ah those were the days, when it was all national traffic (and that was free) and everyone labeled things correctly. Sigh.

**Sniper** · 15th February 2006, 12:31

DC++, now there is a good memory............

**WRT** · 15th February 2006, 12:40

A couple of years ago I went to a lan night in Parnell where they had a DC++ hub set up and something like 50tb of files shared within this one room. Raid arrays and hubs everywhere, the pc's just set up on the floor, I think there were probably less than 40 people who attended but those that did had storage up the wazoo - we were probably about the smallest shares with something like 500gb of files. Me and a mate set up a pc in one corner, queued up the downloads and just left it running. Came back in about 4 or five hours to find that we had just filled a 120gb hdd.

Gotta admit tho, some of the people looked like they really needed to get out more. Didnt socialise with them, I'm sure they're all lovely people, but they really need to get out in the sunshine once in a while. My mate was the one who got the invite, but he didnt want to venture in there alone, after going with him I could see why!

**sugilite:Me** · 15th February 2006, 12:49

Originally Posted by Deviant Esq

Seems like a good little program Sugilite, but what if this happens (see attached)?

Assuming that G-spot supports .asf file extension, I'd say that movie either corrupt or just a dud.

**Sniper** · 15th February 2006, 13:04

As said before, all movies leeched from a porn site or other certain sites are protected by a license. You can't play them until purchasing the license.

(I was told this)

GSPOT does support .asf

**WRT** · 15th February 2006, 13:06

Absolutely, in fact there is nothing that Gspot cant do! Assuming you can find it, that is . . .

**Sniper** · 15th February 2006, 13:08

Fark that would have been cool WRT, any idea if they still have the DC++ hub set up?

**WRT** · 15th February 2006, 13:15

Nah, it was a one night only thing. had a fat pipe to the net as well, cause this guy who had a private site for tv eps was there with his whole server (I think it had three array towers? was huge, anyway). That was a good site, cant remember the name of it (he got shut down about 2 or 3 years ago now), but he had every imaginable episode from any tv series you can imagine. All categorised up, you logged in (private invite only, they were actual NT accounts, not just web generated ones), then clicked on the category (such as comedy) then the show (simpsons) then the season, then the episode. Very well organised, and there must have been thousands of shows dating way back up to current ones (at the time). Was a very impressive collection, never seen anything like it since. Never once did he fail to have a show or episode from any that we could think up. And as it was nz based, they were "free" downloads - this was back when your isp's gave you unlimited NZ traffic.

**Sniper** · 15th February 2006, 13:16

Neat, yea but now the farking ISP won't allow higher than 2mb connections, arseholes!

**Deviant Esq** · 15th February 2006, 13:53

Originally Posted by Sniper

As said before, all movies leeched from a porn site or other certain sites are protected by a license. You can't play them until purchasing the license.

(I was told this)

GSPOT does support .asf

Dammit. That sounds right, cheers Stu.

Bugger it, I'll just go back here.

Edit: Link is NWS. Sorry Sniper! Wasn't me...