Cant access avi files

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Help please! Hi, I cannot access avi files any more. I am using windows media player 11, when I try to enter my videos folder to use avi file I get a windows explorer error and after clicking it closes all folders. Also I have tried playing avi files in power cinema and the same happens. Any programs I try and use an avi file with immediately gets shut down.
All other file types mpeg, wmv etc all play fine. Could this be a codec problem?

Any help or suggestions would be gratefully accepted.

Thanks.
 

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It could be that one of your codecs is corrupt, do you get an error if you use Media Player to open the AVI file manually?

If this was a recent problem, have you tried a system restore to before it happened?

It might be worth installing something like the K-Lite codec pack and see if that does anything:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
 

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I use CCCP with the included Zoom Player . Has played everything I have thrown at it . It comes with the Zoom Player 5 (best player on the planet) and Media Player Classic and you can choose to load them or not . I also have Xvid 1.1.2 installed but that is not needed for playing files only for encoding .


http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Players

http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ

I really like the last part of the FAQ


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Hi, I`ve downloaded the codec pack above and all now seems to be working fine again.:)

Many thanks for your help.
 

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