Vista - Video Quetion

I have Windows Vista and a video file downloaded it's type is AVI Video clip
when I play it I hear the audio, but I get multicolored dancing lines across
the screen instead of the video. What am I doing wrong? Can i fix it??

AVI is just and audio and video container, the video and audio can be
encoded in many different ways within the AVI file, and you then need
to have an appropriate decoder (CODEC) installed on your PC.

You obviously have the audio codec as that is working, the question is what
video codec has been used? A utility called gspot can be used to identify
the video codec needed... http://www.headbands.com/gspot/index.htm

Alternatively you could just download and install the DivX codec
http://www.divx.com/ it is very widely used for video these days
in AVI files and the odds are that you may need it.







"Rahingo" <Rahingo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have Windows Vista and a video file downloaded it's type is AVI Video
>clip
> when I play it I hear the audio, but I get multicolored dancing lines
> across
> the screen instead of the video. What am I doing wrong? Can i fix it??

When installing the DivX codec, ONLY the codec should be installed. The other
parts of the download are not fully Vista compliant.


"Buellpilot" <colin_mcclinton@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ecw7QrjoHHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> AVI is just and audio and video container, the video and audio can be
> encoded in many different ways within the AVI file, and you then need
> to have an appropriate decoder (CODEC) installed on your PC.
>
> You obviously have the audio codec as that is working, the question is what
> video codec has been used? A utility called gspot can be used to identify
> the video codec needed... http://www.headbands.com/gspot/index.htm
>
> Alternatively you could just download and install the DivX codec
> http://www.divx.com/ it is very widely used for video these days
> in AVI files and the odds are that you may need it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Rahingo" <Rahingo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:52D5787B-B17C-4AE8-80B8-207F70B39CA9@microsoft.com...
>>I have Windows Vista and a video file downloaded it's type is AVI Video clip
>> when I play it I hear the audio, but I get multicolored dancing lines across
>> the screen instead of the video. What am I doing wrong? Can i fix it??
>
>