How do I play .avi files???

[Evil Legal Eagle]

Can anybody please tell me how to play .avi video files on Windows Media Player?

I have downloaded so many goodies from here over the last few months, but there are a lot of videos I haven't been able to watch because Media Player will only play the audio part of .avi files! The player says that it is acquiring a 'Codec' (whatever that may be!), then says that it has found the Codec and then all I get is the audio with a blank screen (or the tacky 'effects', if these are enabled).

Try as I might to troubleshoot this problem, I cannot find a solution and it is driving me MAD!!!

Please help!

 

[El Manzo]

.avi files are a pain sometimes: two many codecs around, but forget about those and simply get the free, open source, multi-platform VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

it's a free player that plays almost everything.

 

[Kochka]

Yes, VLC is very useful.

But you can try this to get the right codec : http://avicodec.duby.info/

 

[thewarroom]

Download Quicktime. This is supposed to play all .avi files.

 

[Evil Legal Eagle]

Thanks for your help everyone! Fingers crossed!

 

[Evil Legal Eagle]

.avi files are a pain sometimes: two many codecs around, but forget about those and simply get the free, open source, multi-platform VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

it's a free player that plays almost everything.

This is fantastic! Thanks very much for the tip!

 

[smorrissey]

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