.avi files

[silverdj]

I was just wondering how you can play .avi files in wmp? For some reason they won't play on mine and I have the .avi file type selected in the options.

 

[SynthDude2001]

AVI is just a container, I believe...the actual video/audio content can be lots of different formats, so you probably don't have the correct codec installed for whatever the particular video uses. Might be Divx, Xvid, or lots of other things...where did the video come from, and do you know what codec it uses? You could always open it up in something like Virtualdub to check...

 

[touchmyichi]

probably missing one of the codecs-
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
^Install these and never worry about that again (contains everything)

 

[keeleysam]

Download VLC and quit worrying about codecs.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Download VLC and quit worrying about codecs.

Yup... VLC bundles libavcodec which can decode pretty much everything in just a single set of libraries. They all work together correctly and postprocessing works on all of them. Much less chance of having things conflict. That's an open-source, cross-platform library so it works on any operating system as well, and you can stream to other people.

If you want to use WMP, you may have to use ffdshow. I am not sure if VLC registers codecs or not with other players, but try it before you get ffdshow (which is essentially the same ffmpeg/libavcodec libraries for the Windows multimedia DirectShow interface).