[MathiasDK]

Hello,

I'd just got a movie in AVI-format from a friend (he runs Windows XP).
When I try to play the movie in VLC I get this wierd failmessage.

What should I do to watch my movie?

[dtriska]

I think that's a Matroska file, and you'll need to use MPlayerOSX.

[mdc]

i had some weird error like this and no player would play it. i ended up importing the video into flash and then exporting it to a .mov.

worked fine

[TheIceMan]

Yeah I had this problem before too and Mplayer played it just fine. I know it sucks to have Quicktime, VLC and Mplayer, but MPlayer handles more things than either QT or VLC.

[Big Mac]

This is off topic, but I wish someone could tell me why I can't watch QT video off Apple's site. I can't see QT streams, nor can I watch regular QT movies embedded in Apple's pages. The strange thing is, other regular QT movies display fine. I can view movie trailers Apple links to, but I cannot view the iPod endowed 1984. Anyone else have this problem?

[Uncle Skeleton]

do you have QuickTime 6?

[Big Mac]

Yes, fully upgraded 10.3.2. . . When I try to view an Apple progressive download QT (like iPod 1984) all I see is a white frame.

[ryju]

Originally posted by Big Mac:
This is off topic, but I wish someone could tell me why I can't watch QT video off Apple's site. I can't see QT streams, nor can I watch regular QT movies embedded in Apple's pages. The strange thing is, other regular QT movies display fine. I can view movie trailers Apple links to, but I cannot view the iPod endowed 1984. Anyone else have this problem?

In QuickTime Preferences (System prefs) under the Connection tab click Transport set up, is it set to HTTP port 80? I had to manually make it this to make streams work.

[Big Mac]

Thank you for the tip, ryju; unfortunately I already tried it but it made no difference. I've also punched the proper holes in my router's firewall, but no dice. Strange, eh?