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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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VLC: Unrecognized file format

When trying to play an avi file in VLC, I get an error saying "Unrecognized file format."  I downloaded and wine'd GSpot, and it says that the file is encoded in dvsd format (DVC/DV Video).  It also mentions that it's DV Type 1 AVI and it;s using OpenDML (AVI v2.0).  I have everything that comes to mind installed as far as codecs go, but it still can't recognize it.

Any ideas?

Aakko

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 65

Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

VLC should play DV-format AVIs. Strange that it doesn't for you.

benmorgan

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-28

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Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

Well, for a simple suggestion, have you tried playing it with mplayer?

synthead

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Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

MPlayer doesn't recognize the file either.  We've also tried some other files with similar encodings and we get the same error.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

Run:

ffmpeg -i <your_file>.avi

and post the output.

synthead

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Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

Here's what I get

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-xvid --enable-libdts --enable-x264 --enable-libtheora --disable-libamr-nb --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab
  libavutil version: 49.4.0
  libavcodec version: 51.40.4
  libavformat version: 51.12.1
  built on Jul  6 2007 19:12:00, gcc: 4.2.1 20070704 (prerelease)
Input #0, avi, from 'video.avi':
  Duration: 00:03:39.9, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 30307 kb/s
  Stream #0.0: Video: dvvideo, yuv411p, 720x480, 28771 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
  Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Must supply at least one output file

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

Also one dumb question: Do you have the codecs package installed?

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synthead

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Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

Sure do

skottish

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Re: VLC: Unrecognized file format

You could try ffplay to play the file.

ffplay <your_file>.avi

If that works:

ffmpeg -i <your_file>.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy <new_file>.dv