[peel] Re: Tribute item

[John Gray]

Thanks again Pad!  Yes, VLC did the trick, repaired the avi first  
before playing it.

John


On 29 Sep 2009, at 17:39, postscriptxyz wrote:

John. I've tried opening in Quicktime and also get no sound. I use VLC  
to play avi files, which has an inbuilt repair facility for what it  
calls "broken files", so I can only suggest you try it. It's a free  
download and a Google on "Mac VLC Player" should get you to the  
relevant page.

Pad
--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Gray <jt.gray@...> wrote:
 >
 > Thanks Pad - well, managed to get as far as generating an avi file -
 > which opens up OK in Quicktime. But with no sound!! any ideas?
 >
 > John
 >
 >
 > On 29 Sep 2009, at 16:08, postscriptxyz wrote:
 >
 > Hi John,
 >
 > I'm a Mac user and after a bit of fiddling, managed to extract the
 > file. My download of the five parts appended an extension of .txt to
 > parts 2-5. Using Command+i on each of these, I removed the .txt part
 > of the filenames in the "Names & Extension" box. I then used MacHacha
 > to join the parts. Clicking on the resultant zip file produced the
 > required avi. There was still a minor problem opening this, but the
 > VLC software I use to view avi files repaired it OK.
 >
 > Hope this helps.
 >
 > Pad
 >
 > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Gray <jt.gray@> wrote:
 > >
 > > I don't know about any other Mac users, but I have had no success.
 > > The files appear to download successfully, but any attempt to unzip
 > > them produces error messages - file may be corrupted, etc.
 > >
 > > John Gray
 > >
 > >
 > > On 29 Sep 2009, at 12:27, Eddie Duffy wrote:
 > >
 > > Hi Steve,
 > >
 > > I'll try and set up a torrent tonight if anyone is still having
 > > problems. However, it seems that all you need to do is to  
concatenate
 > > all five files together in order to create a single bog-standard,  
zip
 > > file. If you're running Linux (and maybe OS X?), this can be done
 > very
 > > simply with the cat command, but in Windows, do the following:
 > >
 > > 1. From an Explorer window, create a new file called Autobahn.txt  
in
 > > the same directory as the five downloaded files.
 > > 2. Double-click on Autobahn.txt and paste the following line into  
it:
 > >
 > > copy /b Travels*.zip.??? Autobahn.zip
 > >
 > > 3. Save and close Autobahn.txt.
 > > 4. Rename Autobahn.txt to Autobahn.bat. If you get a warning,  
confirm
 > > that you wish to proceed.
 > > 5. Double-click on Autobahn.bat. A DOS window should fire up and
 > start
 > > processing.
 > > 6. When the window closes, you should have a new file called
 > > Autobahn.zip, which you should be able to open with Winzip, 7-Zip  
or
 > > any similar program.
 > >
 > > Hope this works,
 > >
 > > Eddie.
 > >
 > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "so_it_goes_2512" <so_it_goes_2512@>
 > > wrote:
 > > >
 > > > Hi Eddie
 > > >
 > > > If you could please because I just cannot get this to work and  
it's
 > > driving me up the wall (no pun intended). I've used Win Rar, 7 Zip,
 > > even Hj Split on it and it just fails every time.
 > > >
 > > > Thanks
 > > > Best wishes
 > > > Steve [TK]
 > > >
 > >
 >