In article <0327b385$0$11423$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, mr.bill
<mrbill@invalid.lsm> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:34:56 -0500, DragonTongue wrote:
>
> >In article <w8Kdnb7GfcRSui7VnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d@giganews.com>, hfa
> ><hfa@thehomefront.com> wrote:
> >
> >I don't know what the deal is with these files, but I've downloaded
> >two. Yes, they'll pay on VLC on a Mac. Everything does. :-) But they
> >won't convert to another format, since they are NOT mpg's, despite the
> >extension. Normally, a simple renaming from mpg to avi will do the
> >trick, but not so here. Worse: every converter I have, including PC
> >converters make junk when I try to convert them. (The error has to do
> >with the frame rate, fyi.)
> >
> >Thanks for the post. I just thought you'd like to know that some of us
> >are struggling here. :-)
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >DT
> >
>
> DT,
>
> The files are not mpegs as you know. They are AVIs encoded with the DivX
> codec. You'll need version 5.0 or later of the codec to convert them. If
> you do convert them, please don't ever repost the converted files. We're
> struggling here also trying to ferret out the originals amongst a sea of
> phony, converted videos.
>
> mr.bill
Thanks, mr. bill.
Happily I did know that stuff--and I wouldn't think of sending up a
converted file. I have the requisite codecs. Proof: bs's posts work
just fine. To the point where, as I said above, all it takes to
rectify the "perplexity" of Leopard, is to change the file's .mpg
extension to the more accurate .avi. That done, the file works. Only
the audio's working on hfa's post and THIS is the error message I get
when I try to convert it: "Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs
from container frame rate: 30000.00 (30000/1) -> 25.00 (25/1)"
Again, VLC, that good ol' "Swiss Army Knife" player can handle it. The
oddity is that what IT can handle, VisualHub, the converter, routinely
can turn into a Quicktime compatible file. This problem is confined
to the files hfa has up right now, NOT bs's. (I downloaded a couple of
them several times, just to rule out corruption on download.)
It's not that I haven't seen this happen before, but it IS rare. This
isn't a codec issue. There's a frame-rate anomaly with the files that
"forgiving" players don't mind, it appears. Quicktime and players
based on it are a p.i.a. in that respect. :-)
Regards,
DT
--
"Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits"
--Mark Twain
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