Movie Maker/codec help

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

I recently downloaded my first torrent with Vuze. It downloaded as an aen (R0) file, so I went to "Select a program to open the file in" and picked Windows Movie Maker. It's now supposed to open in Movie Maker- it definitely recognizes that as the default program- but when I try to open it, it tells me that the codec required to play the file is not installed on my computer. Do I need to download something? If so, what?

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[bstro.livejournal.com]

Just because you tell Windows to use program X to open a file doesn't mean that program is capable of opening it. Windows Movie Maker is fairly limited it what video files it will open, whether you have the codec installed or not.

That said, are you 100% that the file you downloaded is an actual video file, and not an archive containing a video file? The only filetype I know of that would have an R0 extension is a RAR archive. RAR archives that have been split into parts have extensions like R0, R2, R3, etc (or is it R001, R002, R003, etc?). If that is the kind of file you downloaded, you need to first be sure that you downloaded all parts of the archive. Second thing you need to do is download RAR to extract the file(s) from the archive. Then, and only then will you have a file that Windows Movie Maker might be able to open.

And if it's not a RAR archive (or part of one), what is it?

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

The filename is tsl.ws.cd1-aen.r06. (That's the sixth file- then there's r07, r08, etc) I'm not really sure what that means.

[bstro.livejournal.com]

As I said, when a person creates a RAR archive (whether it contains several files or just one), they have the option of creating it in multiple pieces. You need to download all of those pieces. Not just R06 through R0[whatever], but also R01 (or R00, if there is one) through R05. Then use WinRAR or some other program that can work with RAR archives to open one of them. It will look for all the other parts, then give you the option of extracting the file(s) from within that archive.

As far as I know, you will not be able to open just R06 by itself -- not in WinRAR and certainly not in Windows Movie Maker.

Here is more info on the RAR archive format. (http://www.rarlab.com/rar_file.htm)

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

Okay. I went to the website and downloaded Pocketrar380, but when I install it, it tells me "Cannot load WIndows CE Appliction Manager" The program's in my Start menu, but the only things in it are "Latest changes" (which takes me to the website) "Pocketrar help" and "Uninstall pocketrar help" I'm assuming that the inability to open Windows CE Manager is why I can't start using the program, but I'm not sure what's causing the problem.

(Life was so much simpler when I just ripped DVDs)

[bstro.livejournal.com]

Are you using a computer or a PDA? Far as I can tell, PocketRAR is for PDAs. If you're using a computer, just get WinRAR.