[MPlayer-users] new codec? or renamed one?

[Damian Gatabria]

El Lun 02 Dic 2002 07:37, D Richard Felker III escribió:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:36:34AM +0000, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi.
> >
> > uhmm.. recently i have received a small
> > birthday greeting in the form of a small
> > video file.
> >
> > Apparently, the new way in which these
> > are made by windoze (hello DMCA and all that crap)
> > is a new one: the actual file was an .exe.
> >
> > (tried on a windoze box, the .exe launched
> > WMP and played the video in question......
> > after doing who knows what to that machine... god
> > i hate MS.)
>
> I would recommend running a good virus scanner, or better yet
> formatting and reinstalling. Running a "birthday greeting" .exe sounds
> like a great way to get trojaned.
>
> BTW, add X263 to the list of fourcc's for the "ffh263" codec in
> codecs.conf and it should play fine.
>
> Rich

Don't worry.. this was a "real" birthday greeting. It was made by my sister
 with her webcam. Apparently the program she used (WMP?)
encoded the AVI right into an .exe (some kind of DRM, perhaps?)

thanks for your suggestion. i'll try it now.

Damian
webcam