On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:06 -0500, DragonTongue wrote:
>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
>
DragonTongue,
I find it odd that only hfa's posts are affected since his files verify
against bs's files. I thought perhaps it had something to do with his
posting program vs our downloading software so I grabbed the file.
It verifies fine and plays fine for me. Then I made this par2 file so you
could check to see if the file you got matches what I got. I see you're
sticking with Thoth, but it's still highly acclaimed. Aside from this, I'm
at a loss.
mr.bill
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