how come winamp real player and sometimes windows media player always give me a corrupt signal whenever im trying to play a video on them

-- andy k (askandy@optonline.net), July 16, 2004

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-- andy k (askandy@optonline.net), July 16, 2004.

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-- Dragon (dr_clan666@hotmail.com), July 17, 2004.

If you are having trouble viewing the avi's or other formatts you downloaded you might just need the correct codec to view them. I will add however that I found winamp and windows media player gave me problems even with the right codecs. So I had much the same problems that you seem to have encountered.

I check what codecs each AVI file needs with a sofware package called gspot. You can check their website here:

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

Gspot is a tool that will tell you what codecs are required to play an AVI file and if your system has those codecs installed or not.

I got rid of windows media player and winamp after I started to use VLC media player 0.7.2. So far it can play all video file formats without any problems. The few times it didn't work where the times when I had either messed up which file to open or I had corrupted data.

It's free software and the interface is easy to work with. I stick to the simplist skin. It will play DVD formats too...very sweet little package.

Check the site at http://www.videolan.org

-- jzar (jameszar@charter.net), July 17, 2004.

do you do the gspot checks yourself for codec files for corrupt avi?

-- andy k (askandy@optonline.net), July 17, 2004.

don't use windows media player it has spyware- better of using media player classic or something else- the best codec pack i found was called gamrcodecpack (really has everything in this thing) but i don't remember where i found it - try a search on google.

-- Oz (souljah972@hotmail.com), July 17, 2004.

I'm not exactly sure of your question. Yet I will make my best guess to try and answer what I think you are asking.

Gspot is software you download, install and use. It is a very easy program to work with. You just select an avi file using the software and it will provide you with detailed information about how that avi file was encoded.

Gspot software will check to see if your system has the correct codecs installed to play your selected avi file, if not it will tell you which codec you will need to intstall.

Gspot can also give you stat's on the avi file. Not much more than letting you know that the file length seems consistant with the information embedded within the file- i.e. the file has not been truncated or otherwise damaged. Most times this is enough to get a good idea if you need to download that file again.

This is a good rough check. Further detailed ways of fixing and correcting corrupted avi files can be found at

http://www.videohelp.com/

A good source for tools, software and advice.

-- jzar (jameszar@charter.net), July 17, 2004.