[PLUG-TALK] .avi conversion

[wes]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:27 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> Some jerk sent me an .avi file that is somehow encoded so that when I
> open it the only thing I see is "Use Windows Media Player" for a few
> seconds, then it quits.
>
> I tried VLC, MPlayer, Totem, and RealPlayer all with the same
> results. I tried converting it with ffmpeg, but the resulting file just
> contains the initial message.
>
> This is the second time someone has done this to me. I don't know how
> they managed to create the file, but it must have been deliberate.
> Therefore it pisses me off.
>

Are you certain it's something you want to see? It sounds to me like they
are expecting the file to do something other than play video. I have seen a
lot of files that would open web pages in the browser, which would then
proceed to install a virus or something.

-wes
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