Should GOM and VLC play an Xvid wmv video file?

[JohnnyDJ]

I have downloaded an Xvid file. It's probably corrupt, but I'm just checking. Should GOM player and/or VLC play it? It has a ,wmv file extension.
GOM shows lots of lines and weird colour blocks, VLC just crashes. Is there anything I can do? Can I check it somehow to see if it is corrupt, or try another player? It's 1GB so I don't really want to download it again. Is there a program that analyzes video files and tells you if its OK?

 

[AntonioI]

The problem might reside in that xvid must have an avi extension not wmv, try to change the file extension from wmv to avi and see if that works.