Thread: PC Magazine Discussions - Fid files - how do you play them or convert them

I recently acquired some .fid files. Although they play as video with sound when initially downloaded (streaming I guess), I cannot get them to play later. I have used the program "Super" to try to convert them to mpg files. Sometimes this works, sometimes I only get the audio portion, and sometimes I get nothing or an error messae. Any suggestions? It may be that the laptop is underpowered for this process.  Charlie

Hi. I did a bit of googling and turned up some hints about this elusive file extension! It seems that certain (porn) sites change the extension on the fly as some kind of way to stop you playing the files I suppose. The solutions I read about were: Change the file extension as it is simply a typical video file format but with the fid extension instead of the correct one. The most used extension that seems to be successful most of the time is...

Download VLC media player it plays .fid files perfectl and its free ( click the link below I have provided) as far as converting them I have absolutely no clue, I am still baffled by that one.   Windows -  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html Mac -         http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html