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From: Woody on 8 Mar 2010 12:47
Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if there is a shareware app for repairing these formats
> on the Mac ? I have a number of them that won't play anymore for some
> crazy reason.

The normal reason is that you don't have the codec, which isn't really
that crazy!

Unfortunately AVI is a wrapper format, so even if you had a tool to fix
one, it may not fix another. Have you tried them in VLC? that tends to
be robust enough to play broken things.

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Woody

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From: Howard on 8 Mar 2010 14:37
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am wondering if there is a shareware app for repairing these formats
> > on the Mac ? I have a number of them that won't play anymore for some
> > crazy reason.
>
> The normal reason is that you don't have the codec, which isn't really
> that crazy!
>
> Unfortunately AVI is a wrapper format, so even if you had a tool to fix
> one, it may not fix another. Have you tried them in VLC? that tends to
> be robust enough to play broken things.

Vlc,MPlayer OS X 2, MPlayer OSX Extended etc. I have also tried
MediaInfo to see what codec they use.

What about the wmv though ? I have full installations of the latest
quicktime and Realplayer.. Is there any hope of playing them ?

H
From: Jim on 9 Mar 2010 01:29
Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:

> Vlc,MPlayer OS X 2, MPlayer OSX Extended etc. I have also tried
> MediaInfo to see what codec they use.
>
> What about the wmv though ? I have full installations of the latest
> quicktime and Realplayer.. Is there any hope of playing them ?

I'd be inclined to shove them through Handbrake and turn them into a
less bletcherous format.

Jim
--
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From: Peter Ceresole on 9 Mar 2010 06:27
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> MPEG Streamclip is my last-resort option. Rubbish player, but it will
> transcode to another format (or the same, but working) if it can read
> the original at all.

Not sure it will, but try Sound Studio, if you have it. It seems to open
a surprising bunch of files, some of which I have as system and alert
sound files from an ancient, obsolete OS8 machine. Nothing else I have
will touch them, including Streamclip, but Sound Studio is happy with
them.
--
Peter
From: Howard on 9 Mar 2010 08:08
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:
>
> > Vlc,MPlayer OS X 2, MPlayer OSX Extended etc. I have also tried
> > MediaInfo to see what codec they use.
> >
> > What about the wmv though ? I have full installations of the latest
> > quicktime and Realplayer.. Is there any hope of playing them ?
>
> I'd be inclined to shove them through Handbrake and turn them into a
> less bletcherous format.
>
Thanks Jim. You guys have all been great but Handbrake won't open them
either. I seem to be at a dead end :(

Tks again.

Howard
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