Video Lan And Avi Preview

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i have experienced a few vlan errors
today infact
starsky hutchtmd.avi
nothing would playit until totally downloaded
for the rest vlam is great
nothing is perfect

[Joakim Agren]

Hello!

Video Lan do preview partials without the end of the file having to be there just the first part needs to be there untill the first Keyframe! I have used it to preview files as small as 2MB. But usually I recommend waiting untill you have downloaded 10MB for AVI's and 20MB for SVCD MPEG's.

For some people the preference file is corrupted and needs to get deleted. Try the following and see if it works and enables you to preview files:

If your using version 0.7 you need to delete the preferences file.Once thats deleted then you will be able to preview incomplete files..

It is found here: C:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\Application Data\vlc

Youll need to have "show hidden files & folders " enabled to be able to see it!.

[digmen1]

Thanks Joakim Agren

At last someone who speaks a bit of sense !

And the previous poster who had a file that it would not preview.

I did not believe those before who said that Video Lan needs the start and the end of the file to be present before it can preveiw as I have had it preview several small files no problem when I know that only the first few frames have been downloaded as i wasa doanloading from one user only.

Surely, KL does not download the last frames of a file just so that we can preview it.

Joachim your suggestion about the preferences file is much appreciated and i will check it out.

You mention version 07. What is the latest version ?

I realise that nothing is perfect, it just seemed to me that having it not preview about 50% of my files when they all download OK and are not fakes means the program is not living up to its billing in their web site where they say it previews just avout evry file without Codecs !

Thanks

Digby

[Cyril]

Digby, I find both work okay for me, but on avi's etc of more than 700 Mb I need about 10-20 Mb before I can preview, and still it doesn't always work. Believe latest version of Videolan is 0.71

Check for PM from me as well.

[zoidman]

Videolan works great. Ever since i reformatted my computer and lost my previous codecs videolan has not created any problems and has played all the files i've watched thus far. Much simplier solution than codecs.
However i think if you have existing codecs and other players on ur comp it may interfere with videolan! something i read on their site i think....