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Okay, I downloaded bittorrent, and I downloaded a video, but for some reason it wont play sound. Can anyone help me out?

What does this have to do with torrents? You've done the torrent part, but you don't have the right codec for the video file. You could tell us what sort it is so we can direct you if you want!

YUO FAIL AT THE INTARDNET

Serously download a popular codec pack.

Download ffdshow.

My advice would be to play it in VLC player, it plays everything even stuff using really obscure codecs, I haven't had a video file it can't play yet.

Thanks guys, especially you Dev, yours got it to work.

DevNull wrote:My advice would be to play it in VLC player, it plays everything even stuff using really obscure codecs, I haven't had a video file it can't play yet.

VLC is fine and dandy until you run into two things:

1) The interface could seriously use some work. For example, clicking on the position bar should skip the video to that point and not just some arbitrary amount of time forward. Whichever genius made that design decision ought to be soundly beaten about the skull.

2) VLC completely shits itself over soft-subtitles. Seriously, if two people are talking at the same time, it'd be nice if the subtitles weren't all smashed together into the same line making an illegible mess.

For these reasons I prefer Media Player Classic combined with DefilerPak.

Uraniun235 wrote:2) VLC completely shits itself over soft-subtitles. Seriously, if two people are talking at the same time, it'd be nice if the subtitles weren't all smashed together into the same line making an illegible mess.

Hell yes. VLC is an easy drop-in solution, but it has serious problems (don't get me started on playing network files on a Mac, the buffering is absurd) and nobody on their forums likes to talk about any of them. Hurrah!

Get CCCP. Combined Community Codec Pack, it has every codec I knew and more I didn't, and it comes with Media Player Classic. Which, IMHO, is the best media player I've ever used. It just works, doesn't slow shit down when it's paused or even moved around the screen, it's very nice.


I feel nice today, so:

http://www.cccp-project.net/