I know this is a bit of copyright infringement, but I have a Japanese Hobby TV show called "Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM". Its hobby show where they make models of different types (Gundam, Cars, Plains, etc...) I download them because I am in the US. I don't think you can buy them either, plus the NTSC and PAL issues.
Almost all work fine but I have three that are causing problems. They are AVI files; they will not play in any player except the Divx player from www.divx.com (which they play fine in). I normally use VLC Media Player. When I try to open it in a different player they error out stating it is not a valid video file. I have tried a few different converters (Divx Converter, Total Video Converter, and Avidemux) none are able to open and or convert it to a different format. If anyone has them they are Episodes 15, 16 and 18 from the second season. Each is about 250-300 Megs.
I know this is little to no information to gone and I can't post a link to the file, but how can I open the file(s) to the information out of it to be able to ask a more sensible question. Is there an "inspector" program that will open the file and read the format to report what it is?