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ACE61502
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_ 		29. July 2010 @ 12:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yesterday afternoon my cousin/co-worker was in an accident and a local business caught it on their surveillance and offered us the video. I picked it up on a Flash drive and have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out how to play it. AVIcodec even tells me the format is not supported. It is an AVI, and it played fine when I watched it there. I've downloaded KMP, Media Player Classic, VLC, nothing will play this. Please help!
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davexnet
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_ 		29. July 2010 @ 14:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Download Media info and use it to open the file.

It will give you all the gory details.
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ACE61502
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_ 		29. July 2010 @ 15:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thank you. It says MPEG-4 Visual.

What should play this?
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ACE61502
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_ 		29. July 2010 @ 15:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Found WinFF through a thread that was also about a stubborn surveillance video. I can view it through WinFF but it's insane fast and so far nothing I've tried to convert it to will play outside of WinFF.
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davexnet
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_ 		29. July 2010 @ 19:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Open the file with Mediainfo and put it into text view.
Copy and paste the results into this post.
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ACE61502
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_ 		29. July 2010 @ 19:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Got home and tried using WinFF again and it converted it to QuickTime without a problem. Now I get to figure out how to shorten it down to a minute before and after the accident. Any suggestions?
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