Hi, I just downloaded an avi file of a music video and it turns out when you play it to be a text file or html file of gibberish. Now, how do you covert this into an actual play-able avi/movie file. I know there's a way.
Thanks
Andrew
Posted by Nimrod Pimding (Member # 205) on :
If you right-clicked on the link to the .avi and chose "Save As" or "Save from Source", the link doesn't always lead directly to the file, so what you save is only the little page the file was going to be displayed in. If you hover your mouse over the link and it says "****.avi" in the status field on the bottom of the browser, it will be an .avi when downloaded.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
No, no - it wasn't that. It was a huge file - and getright downloaded it. When I went to open the file - it just opened ie and put gibberish on the page.
I know the one you mean - where it's a separate HMTL page and THEN the file on the next link - it wasn't that.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Can't you open it in Media Player (or a program of your choice), instead of double-clicking it?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
I've seen this, but it seemed to be something to do with the place it was saved from, as if they didn't want you saving their files.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
It was a special download place.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, for one thing, if the file has a .AVI extension, and you double-clicked it, and it opened in IE, your file associations are wrong. Open up WMP and use File->Open to open the movie. Then see what happens.