my Avi files...

[Mike]

Ok, I suck with computers, so bear with me. When I try to
play an .avi it doesn't open as a video, it opens and
only plays the sounds with the windows media player
trippy music twirl thing(see, I told you I suck with
computers). So my question is, how do I fix that?

 

[Ian & Lorraine]

You're missing the video codec required to play the video portion of the
movie. Download GSpot from http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ and stick it in
a folder somewhere (no install required.) Open your movie file with GSpot
and it will tell you which video codec you need.

I have found that Windows Media Player is often not the best choice for
playing avi movies. Using BSplayer: http://www.bsplayer.org/ and having the
ffdshow codec: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53761
installed lets me play just about any movie file I come across. YMMV.

Regards,
Ian.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

It's probably been encoded with DIVX and you should get the DIVX codecs from
www.divx.com.

Cari
www.coribright.com