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VLC cant play a file that Win Media Player CAN.

by shahrokhan Sep 3, 2007 10:37PM PDT

I have a video which is compressed using Ms-RLE. Now I tried to play it with VLC and only the audio worked. I tried Windows Media Player and it worked!

I dont think I have any extra codecs installed. This proves that VLC can not play all file formats and in some cases other players which are considered crappy can be better.

YAY BTW I love VLC anyways.

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