.avi file player

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Is there anything which plays .avi files sent from a digital camera?
None of the usual suspects work, although some will play sound without
picture.
 
Hi Jim. Win Movie Player should do that. ..J
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Is that the same as Win Movie Maker?
I just tried that but like WMP it seems unable to import the correct codec.
 
Fri, 27 May 2005 08:54:45 GMT, Jim Scott:
Is there anything which plays .avi files sent from a digital camera?
None of the usual suspects work, although some will play sound without
picture.
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AVI is just a container format for different types of data. For
instance my Pentax produces "IBM Motion JPEG with Huffman", a format
I've never heard of before. If your players won't work you could try
loading the videos into a conversion program like VirtualDub and
compress it to DivX or whatever is your liking.
 
Fri, 27 May 2005 08:54:45 GMT, Jim Scott:


AVI is just a container format for different types of data. For
instance my Pentax produces "IBM Motion JPEG with Huffman", a format
I've never heard of before. If your players won't work you could try
loading the videos into a conversion program like VirtualDub and
compress it to DivX or whatever is your liking.
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I just downloaded some .avi samples from MS and they ran ok in WMP so it
must be to do with this particular set of files. I'll keep trying.
 
AVI is just a container format for different types of data. For
instance my Pentax produces "IBM Motion JPEG with Huffman", a format
I've never heard of before. If your players won't work you could try
loading the videos into a conversion program like VirtualDub and
compress it to DivX or whatever is your liking.
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No VirtualDub cannot uncompress it either.
 
Fri, 27 May 2005 10:16:07 GMT, Jim Scott:
No VirtualDub cannot uncompress it either.
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Open it in a Hex Editor and look at the first four Bytes. These should
tell you what format it is. then look at www.fourcc.org to see which
codec you nee.
Opening the file should also go with Notepad, but depending on the
filesize, this can take a while and then DON'T SAVE any changes or you
have an ex-video.
 
Open it in a Hex Editor and look at the first four Bytes. These should
tell you what format it is. then look at www.fourcc.org to see which
codec you nee.
Opening the file should also go with Notepad, but depending on the
filesize, this can take a while and then DON'T SAVE any changes or you
have an ex-video.
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This did not work for me, but I downloaded a program called gspot which
told me the DIVX codec was missing. Once I downloaded DIVX player then WMP
was quite happy to play. Sorry I have noy listed the sites, but I got them
all by Googling.
 
Jim Scott said:
This did not work for me, but I downloaded a program called gspot which
told me the DIVX codec was missing. Once I downloaded DIVX player then WMP
was quite happy to play. Sorry I have noy listed the sites, but I got them
all by Googling.
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GSpot - http://gspot.headbands.com/
 
You are naughty James. You didn`t say they were DivX, you said .avi.
Glad you`re sorted..J
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I didn't know they were DivX.
They said they were .avi and played ok on the sender's WMP.
 
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