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?

[RichardJames]

Suggestion. Try copying then renaming the file. You could name it "test.wmv" then see if it will play.

If VLC crashes you have to kill the vlc.exe process before it will work again.

The software that I usually use to repair broken videos is:

http://www.formatoz.com/

Just tell it to convert the file to another video format and if it can be fixed it will play.

[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.