Getting an error while trying to play a movie—any ideas?

I downloaded The Great Pyramid of Giza today, but I'm getting an error every time I try to play the movie. I’m using VLC Media Player. Does anyone have a fix?

Maybe try using G-Spot to figure out which specific codec you’re missing, or just grab the latest version of the Kodiak codec pack. 🙂

Andrew Mendoza10 said:I downloaded The Great Pyramid of Giza today, but whenever I try to play the movie, I just get an error message. I'm using VLC Media Player. Does anyone have a fix?

Don't you dare—not even under extreme duress—provide any specific details about what kind of error it actually is. This way is much more entertaining. 🙄

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Joshua Garcia3 said:Use the G-Spot tool to figure out which codec you're missing—or just grab the latest version of the Kodiak codec pack. Kodiak. 🙂

Thanks—everything is running perfectly now. 👍

It's happening all over again 😢🙂😢 what am I supposed to do about this

Joshua Garcia3 said:You could probably just use G-Spot to figure out which codec is missing, or maybe just grab the latest version of the Kodiak codec pack. Kodiak. 🙂

Andrew Mendoza10 said:it's happening again 😢🙂😢 what should I do

Well, I guess I should ask what you actually did with the advice I gave you earlier that worked so well. What's G-Spot saying now? 🙂

I'd suggest downloading VLC Media Player. It comes pre-packaged with all the necessary video codecs you'll need to get everything running smoothly right out of the box.
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

Joshua Garcia3 said:What's up G-Spot. You took everything I wrote, enjoyed it at the time, and now what? 🙂

I downloaded and installed http://img6.imageshack.us/i/xxxxxxa.png/—it worked perfectly fine initially. But today, I tried downloading The Chronicles of Narnia : The Voyage of The Dawn Treader and I'm getting an error again (specifically just for that movie).

Andrew Mendoza10 said:I went ahead and downloaded and installed http://img6.imageshack.us/i/xxxxxxa.png/ and everything was running smoothly. But today I tried downloading The Chronicles of Narnia : The Voyage of The Dawn Treader again and it’s throwing an error—just for that specific movie.

What's up G-Spot. 🙂

Just grab "VLC Media Player". That thing plays basically anything you throw at it.

Joshua Garcia3 said:What's up G-Spot. 🙂

Just download "VLC Media Player"—it handles just about anything you throw at it.

I might look like an idiot for asking this now, but what actually is G-Spot?

Limewire is just some free little tool that figures out which codec you'll need to actually run an AVI file, plus it throws in some extra details too.

Joshua Garcia3 said:Limewire is a free tool that figures out which codec you need for an AVI file—plus some extra details, too.

Thanks for the heads-up. 🙂

I'm not touching that movie until it hits Pirate Bay. I actually went ahead and downloaded those players you guys suggested, but every time I try to run the file, I just get hit with an error message claiming I'm missing codecs—as if I'm supposed to watch everything through Windows Media Player. Of course, that won't work either. So, I did what anyone would do: I headed over to the Microsoft site to grab some utility that was supposed to give me a code to download the necessary codecs for Windows Media Player. In the end? Absolutely nothing.

So, once you fire up Limewire and load that .avi file from the movie, just see which specific codec it says is missing. 😢
If VLC can't handle playing it, then the file is probably just a fake; I guess it depends on whether you grabbed it from a public tracker or a private one. 🙂

Here’s what Limewire says (image)

It looks like a bit of a mess here. I'd say maybe you should just wait until the Napster version drops before downloading anything; it’ll probably be more reliable that way. 🙂

I was hoping for something—anything—but now there’s just nothing. I really hope we aren't looking at some kind of virus here.

Andrew Mendoza10 said:I was honestly hoping it wasn't anything serious, but I guess there might be some kind of virus in there.

I really hope it isn't 🙄, but when you grabbed that from the public torrent, wasn't there an nfo or a txt file included? Usually, if there's an issue with a file—like a movie—someone will post a note so others don't waste their time downloading junk. 🙂

Joshua Garcia3 said:I'm hoping it isn't 🙄. When you were pulling that from the public tracker, wasn't there an .nfo or a .txt file? Usually, if there’s an issue with a file—say, a movie—someone will post a note just so others don't waste their bandwidth. 🙂

There was nothing written. It seems odd to me—I was mostly grabbing from users who had already finished 100% of the download and left it for the rest of us. If they realized the file was bad, why wouldn't they just pull the torrent?