I downloaded this video from two different mirror locations but neither does work here (macosx 10.2.8, tried with QuickTime and Windows Media Player), QuickTime says "program error" and WMP says "wrong format".
Does it work for others? The MD5 of the file that I have is
b6d698b4d4f98c38d5e382a9e3f82d61 20-town-hall.avi
GSpot[1] says about this file:
"
This is an invalid AVI file due to corruption of the data in the header. This is a serious problem, and this file is not likely to playable
Details: While processing chunk /RIFF:AVI , found bad length value 8822 at file offset 0x00000010
"
Then I tried to open it with VirtualDub[2]. VirtualDub reported that the index block was missing and reconstructed it using a file scan. I re-saved the file and GSpot reported the following:
"
DirectShow claims to be able to play the file. The following combination of filters were used:
{C:\temp\cocoon\20-town-hall_resave.avi} (Source)
{AVI Splitter} (Splitter) {DivX Decoder Filter} (Video Decoder)
{Video Renderer} (Video Renderer) {MPEG Layer-3 Decoder} (Audio Decoder)
{Default WaveOut Device} (Audio Renderer)
"So that's the trick and the new file played happily :-).
HTH, HAND
Martijn Bouterse
[1] http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ [2] http://www.virtualdub.org/index
