Why can't the video play?

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Video

There is a video, absolutely not damaged, which flatly refuses to play on the PC. There are k-lite codecs. The movie and tv application gives out "the element is encoded in an unsupported format." MPC complains about the lack of a suitable codec and plays the audio track without video. Despite the fact that this file perfectly reproduces even an ancient TV playing from a flash drive exclusively AVI. On a computer, it can only be played normally in VLC.

Here are the video parameters indicated in the place where you downloaded from:
Video: 576x432 (1.33:1), 25 fps, DivX MPEG-4 Low-Motion ~1262 kbps avg, 0.20 bit/pixel
Audio #1: 44.100 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch, ~192.00 kbps avg(rus)
Audio #2: 44.100 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch, ~128.00 kbps avg(fre).

Why is that? What's wrong with this video?

Answer 1

It is encoded with an ancient codec. He, EMNIP, became obsolete back in the noughties. This is MPEG 3 (which seems to have died altogether and was merged with mpeg 2), and we have a fourth in progress. Where did you get the video?
There are two solutions: transcode to mpeg 4 (aka H.264, Handbrake should handle it) or use VLC. Theoretically, you can find and install an MPEG 3 codec (obviously, it is not included in the standard set of codecs, most likely lying around in the extended one), but in general I do not recommend messing with this junk.