Guide to Playback of Brickfilms by Nate Burr
This guide is intended to provide some help for not only playing the many fine films you'll find through this site, but also to help you should you have difficulty in getting a brickfilm to play. If you cannot find your answers here, you can also ask for help on our forums
To begin with, you will most likely need one of the three main Media Players;
For Those out there who, for whatever reasons, cannot,
or choose not to install Quicktime Player or Real player, there are
alternative codecs available which will enable playback of both formats
within Windows Media Player classic.
Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative can Both be
found HERE
Video Files are encoded using CODECS (you can learn about
those here) to play back
a movie file you need to have the correct codec installed for both the
video stream and the audio stream, occasionally you might find that
a film will refuse to play, or sometimes it will play the sound only,
and not the video (or visa versa) this is most often because you're
missing a codec (or it is improperly installed).
So how on earth do you figure out which codec you need to install to
solve this problem? Well, that's where a tool called VideoInspector
comes in!
VideoInspector
is a nifty little piece of software that can tell you all kinds of handy
stuff about a video file, including what codecs the file uses, and it's
dead easy to use.
After opening Video Toolbox, you'll see the main interface;
All you need to do to figure out what codec(s) you'll need is to playback
a given video file all you need to do is to click browse and select
a the file, Video toolbox will now display all you need to know
As you can see, This particular file, is encoded using the DivX 5 codec, and the audio is in Mp3 (a very common combination), Video Toolbox also tells us that I have both the required Codecs installed and working. Should you not have the required coded Video toolbox will even attempt to give you a download link to it. Just click the download button to download and/or find out more about the codec How handy.
As an alternative, another similar Program I've used that does essentially the same job is GSpot
Between the Three Media players presented here, and the tools for figuring out what codecs those "stubborn" files use , You should have no problem playing back any and all Brickfilms presented on this site.
