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Help determine what type of file this video is

lopri

lopri

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I downloaded this YouTube video on my tablet using UC Browser (Android), and it plays fine with Android's native media player. But for whatever reason the file name is 10+ numbers without extension. I transferred it to a PC and tried various extensions and players but nothing works, and without knowing what kind of file it is the PC doesn't know what to do with it. How do I go about this?

An example file in question below. (approx. 16 MB, not pr0n/trojan)

http://www.fileswap.com/dl/GVP6KImuwg/
 
You can simply throw it into apps that don't use file extensions as guidance and see what they say. For example, VLC has a 'media info' popup, and FFMPEG will output a bunch of useful data, including stream names and details, if you input without specifying an output.

That said, there's literally only two options for file extensions, webm and mp4. If you got it from mobile device, the chances of it being .mp4 are very very very high. You can also just rename it to either or and see whether apps that do consider file extensions read it properly.
 
Every youtube video download I've had was .mp4 by default. I'd throw a .mp4 at the end of it and see if your media player will play it then.
 
Could anyone try downloading it and playing it.. I still haven't figured it out. I've tried .mp4, .flv, .3gp, .m4v, none works..
 
You could also download and use gspot to determine the video filetype.

But like someone mentioned above it's likely flv or mp4 from YouTube.
 
Thank you I'll try gspot and report back.

I've downloaded more videos but they're all the same. No extensions, just bunch of random numbers.
 
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