Re: File not working, reproducable error, but not on WMP

On Sat, Apr 24, 2004, Markus Stenzel wrote :
> Hallo vlc,
> 
> I'm in possession of a file which doesn't play on VLC but works fine
> in Windows Media Player on the same machine. The result of this test
> is completely reproducable.
> 
> I had the impression VLC is using original Direct Show dec's to render
> it's content so maybe knowledge of the file might be one step to find a
> little bug in your otherwise excellent software.
> 
> I have tested the file with vlc-0.7.1-win32.exe on Windows 2000. If
> you are interested in this file I could possibly find a way to send
> a copy your way somehow. It's 183,000,000 million bytes... :)
> 

VLC doesn't ude directshiow at all  for decoding (remember it is a cross
platform  player). So,  it  might be  that  you file  is  using a  codec
unsupported by VLC (look in the view, message menu to get more info)

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$(echo "BigBen")

Oui je quote, et alors ?

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