Video Error

[Carnage]

I've been trying to watch the new Family Guy Star Wars movie and I get this error no matter which player I use:





I use CCCP and it's never failed me in all the year's I've had it. Any ideas?

[RyougaZell]

That's a generic error. Try posting the details of it on the click here link you get.
The video file may be corrupt though.

[Carnage]

Maybe this helps?

[Buffalobiian]

That's a generic error. Try posting the details of it on the click here link you get.
The video file may be corrupt though.

Usually with corrupt videos, my computer just doesn't play them.

Windows media player will skip the file, highlighting it in orange with the (!) mark next to it.
MPC will say something like "Unable to render file".


Carnage, does Microsoft suggest anything when/if you send the error report? Sometimes they give you useful feedback, even if it's just "X caused the error. A newer version of X is available. Try updating X."

I guess the easiest way to see what the problem is is to play the file on another computer. If it works, the file (by itself) isn't the problem, and the fault lies in the first computer, or certain circumstances on the first computer.

Update CCCP?

[David75]

libavcodec is a library used by ffdshow I think.

in MPC, could you try MPC internal decoder?

It does that with all players because ffdshow is set as prefered filter no matter what.


If you do not care about having ffdshow decoding everything, because it's more convenient too, then try updating ffdshow

[Carnage]

Holy shit, I tried your advice and updated ffdshow and it worked! Thanks a shitload everyone! I appreciate all the help!

[RyougaZell]

Usually with corrupt videos, my computer just doesn't play them.

Windows media player will skip the file, highlighting it in orange with the (!) mark next to it.
MPC will say something like "Unable to render file".

True enough.

Anyway, seems problem is resolved. I was looking for info on the dll but came back to browse down, so not needed anymore.