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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
Okay peeps here's the deal. I just downloaded the spider-man movie on .avi format and for some reason its not playing. Any ideas on what I should do or what program to use for playing it? I've only got a crappy 56K modem so as you can imagine this took bloody ages to DL!!!

Heeelllpppp!

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Kurt:
    <STRONG>Okay peeps here's the deal. I just downloaded the spider-man movie on .avi format and for some reason its not playing. Any ideas on what I should do or what program to use for playing it? I've only got a crappy 56K modem so as you can imagine this took bloody ages to DL!!!

    Heeelllpppp!</STRONG>


    What does the error message say? Maybe it was a bad download, or windows media needs updating.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    doesn't say anything, when i open it in windows media player there's just nothing on the screen, but time is elapsing. I checked skipping ahead and still nothing.

    I'll try a newer media player I suppose.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A full feature-length movie on standard AVI format would be about 3 gigs plus. It ought to be in DIVX format. Do a search on google for DiVX. Chances are they have used the hacked DiVX codec for AVI for it and you don't have the hacked codec installed.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    thanks BK, I had the same problem too.

    All better now.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    http://www.divx-digest.com/software/playa.html

    I remember it as being quite good.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    has to LOL because i got it on DVD and it works on my playstaion 2, and it only cost me $10 another usless bit of info there.

    i hope your downloaded works now, its a great film spider-man, not as good as Star Wars <IMG SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    GOD, you bloody computer nurds <IMG SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0" ALT="icon"> You get all the bloody fun <IMG SRC="mad.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">

    I WANT TO KNOW HOW TO DO THESE THINGS <IMG SRC="frown.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Moving to the net
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    GOD, I WANT TO KNOW HOW TO DO THESE THINGS

    ok my child, god will share his vast array of knowledge with you <IMG SRC="tongue.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">

    Firstly you should get broadband otherwise this becomes very lengthy and quite stupid, failing this (as the UK is unfortuatly behind in public broadband net technology) make sure you have an unlimited connection account and your ISP doesn't go disconnecting you after periods of idle time otherwise its bloody annoying...

    1) Download and install DivX player, links have been provided above.

    2) Download a fileshare program (ie. KaZaA Lite, Morpheous, Limewire, Imesh etc.) via either http://www.download.com or a search on Google

    3) Search for the movie by name, these can be in two parts each being like 700mb each depending on encoded quality or format.

    Download and play in either DivX player or some other player.
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