You may have to change the filename extension when playing
videos that are in the midst of downloading. For instance,
if you??™re downloading a video with Pando named skiing.mpg,
the intermediate filename will be skiing.mpg.downloading,
and thus the filename of the duplicate you create will be
skiing.mpg-Copy.downloading. Just rename the file to
skiing.mpg-Copy.downloading.mpg (or simply skiing.mpg)
and then double-click the file to play it.
With some video formats, particularly .avi files, there??™s a catch: the index,
essential information about the sequence of frames in the video, is located at
the end of the file instead of the beginning. Thus an incomplete .avi file thus
won??™t have an index, and can??™t be played at all. The solution is to use a reindexing
utility to rebuild this data and make the file playable. DivFix (free,
http://divfix.maxeline.com), shown in Figure 4-4, does this quite nicely, but
only works on true .avi files (discussed earlier in this section). If DivFix can??™t
repair your file, the Windows Media Encoder (free, http://www.microsoft.com/
windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx) is capable of indexing
video files, albeit requiring a bit more work to navigate the complex interface.
Fix Other Playback Problems
So, what if your video plays, but just doesn??™t play well? Problems like
stretched or squashed video (too wide or too tall), bad color, and choppy
playback can all be caused by buggy or misconfigured video codecs.
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