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Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« on: March 11, 2011, 11:46:48 PM »
Using VLC I got this message -
Codee Error: use Windows Media Player.
But Windows Media Player can not play it at all. Not even the error message. At least VLC starts up and sows the message.

But It looks like the message is really in the AVI movie I want to watch. The movie trailer works alright. But the full length version starts with the error message and then quits. There is normal sound and video and then eater a few seconds it quits.
This has happened before on a different movie from the same studio.  Does anybody now why that message is there?

My workaround was to get the movies from a trusted source. Still, I am curious. Why do they do that?
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2011, 09:12:18 AM »
Where are you getting this movie from?
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2011, 03:29:41 PM »
It was a torrent.
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2011, 06:17:03 PM »
Theres the issue...
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2011, 11:16:08 AM »
NO! I'ts a CONSPIRACY!  ::)
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2011, 04:44:49 PM »
Well, I looked around on Google.
Found a site where they think it was a Trojan.
Anyway, I deleted it and ran a scan.
Didn't find anything that would explain  what really happened.
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2011, 04:53:45 PM »
Quote from: Geek-9pm on March 13, 2011, 04:44:49 PM
Didn't find anything that would explain  what really happened.
Which could mean only one thing.

It's a conspiracy.
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2011, 06:16:07 PM »
Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 13, 2011, 04:53:45 PM
Which could mean only one thing.

It's a conspiracy.
Must be. But who are there? FBI? Microsoft?
This person?
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2011, 07:15:42 PM »
Nope...
It's replicants...plain and simple.
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Re: Codec Error: use Windows Medai Player
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2011, 07:45:10 PM »
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it's replicants...
Blade Runner (1982)
Never thought it would happen to me.  :o
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