At 02:13 PM 3/19/2006 +0100, you wrote:
Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
Was surfing the web when I came across this
documentary on ARPAnet -
features some of the founders, including Davies, Licklider, Heart, and
Khan.
http://xrl.us/kg7y is a redirect to the download - it's on Google Video
- this is an AVI file.
Any idea why I can't watch it using media player? Is this a trivial
missing codec or any other suggestion? I would love to watch it!
I couldn't play it in Windoze Media Player 10 either. Stupid program,
supposed to download the right codec on demand. That process works about
50/50 for me. Plays real nice on my DLink Media Lounge media player,
connected to a network cable and my TV.
If you want it to play on your PC, you really need the Divx player v2.6 is
really sweet, and free (as in beer). Plays anything WiMP 10 can't and most
of what it can too, in a smaller footprint with less impact.
www.divx.com
According to the AVICodec utility (search, download) it the video codec is
Open Divx v4, the FourCC code for which is divx (covers a lot of ground,
that). The GSpot utility says I have 6 compatible codecs installed, but I
know from experience that a third of those so identified will play the file
poorly or not at all. I'm somewhat a codec junkie, or used to be, so I have
several.
It's encocded as 25 fps, 404 kb/s, size is 480x360. A click of the Render
button in GSpot produces a long pause and "Rendering failed" which I think
means that the default codec is the wrong one on my machine.
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