Error With Some Videos

[Wolfe Tone]

I've been getting a very annoying error when I go to play certain video files on my computer. Winamp and explorer.exe crash and it shows this in the error message

AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2600.0 ModName: mpeg2dmx.ax
ModVer: 2.0.84.30429 Offset: 0000dff3

After doing a quick google search I found a recomendation for a program called VirtualDub. I can open the file in virtualdub and watch it. There is video but no audio. If can use virtual dub to make an uncompressed avi, and it works prefectly. However the file size is nearly 50GB, which is unacceptable. There isn't much in the way of help with Virtualdub so I'm not to familliar on all it's functions. When I first open the file in virtual dub it show this message (see attachement.) Does anyone have any idea on what I should do with that.

I would really like to get this file working so if anyone know of a way of doing so I would appreciate it.

 

[Dabomb18359]

What's 50GB your file you want to watch or Virtual Dub?

 

[CruddyLeper]

I THINK you might just get your regular programs to play the file by changing the codec. Now, I understand the theory; a codec (compressor/decompressor) is a set of rules for interpreting data. By changing the codec (many different available on the Internet) you should be able to get the file working with regular tools - it's obviously not intended for people to waste 50Gb of hard drive space just to watch a movie.

HOW you do this... not sure. On 98SE it's on settings/control panel/multimedia/devices, but I doubt you've got 98SE.

BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO CHANGE YOUR CODEC - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF THE CODEC YOU ARE CHANGING. This might not be necessary but I don't want to be blamed for screwing things up even more.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

What's 50GB your file you want to watch or Virtual Dub?

The video file when it's uncompressed

I THINK you might just get your regular programs to play the file by changing the codec. Now, I understand the theory; a codec (compressor/decompressor) is a set of rules for interpreting data. By changing the codec (many different available on the Internet) you should be able to get the file working with regular tools - it's obviously not intended for people to waste 50Gb of hard drive space just to watch a movie. HOW you do this... not sure. On 98SE it's on settings/control panel/multimedia/devices, but I doubt you've got 98SE. BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO CHANGE YOUR CODEC - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF THE CODEC YOU ARE CHANGING. This might not be necessary but I don't want to be blamed for screwing things up even more.

Right, I have XP Professional so I don't know how do what you've said, so if anyone has any ideas. I used a tool called KLite's GSpot to determine what codec it uses and I've downloaded a number of versions to try and get it going. What really get's me is that. I have a number of files of exactly the same type (my friend created them, and I think he used the exact same settings on each of them) and they all work perfectly. I'm considering doing a total decompression using virtual dub and then recompress it myself. I would rather not do that because I'd have to do some backing up to get enough space, but I'm not certain even that would work.