"kwanjai" <kwanjai@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Julian, I have already downloaded videolan & realplayer to see if
> that
> works but it still does not..the most important video file I need to play
> is
> in AVI ( Im guessing thats what you mean when you ask what file type? ) I
> also have alot of important video files in VLC & even though I have
> installed
> videolan it still only plays the audio & no visual.. any ideas??
>
Try the Divx codecs and perhaps their player.
http://www.divx.com/
Personally I have found that Winamp is the most capable player
insofar as it encounters fewest unplayable (for whatever reason) files.
http://www.winamp.com/
Also look at this...
"Windows Media Player will play .avi files. If it won't it's probably
because the files were created with a codec that WMP doesn't understand.
Download Windows Media Encoder and re-encode the files and I'll bet they
play then. "
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.mspx http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-623...sageID=2080328