Does windows (98 and up) open/play *.AVI movies without the codec?

[abu]

Hi guys,

My digital video camera records videos in AVI format.
Im running windows 2000 pro with the alpha avi codec... im gonna burn and send some videos to my uncle, who is running windows 98 (and he's computer illiterate)


I was just wondering if he needed any codecs in order to play these video's.

thanks

 

[Comp625]

Yep as long as he has Windows Media Player or Realplayer or whatever that can play AVIs with, he's fine. Remember, your vid camera saved it in AVI. Your video wasn't compressed with a codec like DIVX or anything. It SHOULD work.

 

[Burnt]

Yes, it should work because it's not specially encoded as anything else (ie: DIVX)

 

[abu]

cool.. thanx

 

[VBboy]

Just so you know, uncompressed AVIs can be huge. Even when compressed, they tend to be much larger than Mpegs of comparable or even better quality. Try converting it to Mpeg once done - everyone has an Mpeg decoder, and you will save a couple of CDs