On Thursday, July 15, 2010 03:45:27 JD wrote: > I have an avi file which when played with any of the linux players: > xine, vlc, mplayer, ffplay, totem, ...etc > displays the message in the video window: > Codec Error: Use Windows Media player. > then it issues the message: Redirecting to microsoft download page. > > I have never seen this happen before. > > Has anyone else seen it? How to get around it? Yes, I have seen it. You download a full 700 MB avi of a movie (typically via torrent) and try to play it. It starts playing, then it displays the above messages *hard coded inside the video stream*, and exits. It's a hoax, coupled with propaganda. The very same thing happens even if you actually use Windows Media Player to play the file, on a Windows machine. Further, there is no workaround. The rest of the 700 MB of data is pure junk and you wasted your time and bandwidth downloading it --- there is no movie inside to be played. I didn't try to scan it for viruses/trojans/worms/malware/etc., because I believe you cannot get infected by playing a movie in mplayer (unless mplayer has some serious security exploit that nobody is aware of). So just drop that file and go find a genuine one. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
