Can't see video taken with my digital camera

[Guest]

I have a canon powershot s50 digital camera that allows me to take short video clips. It stores these files as .avi
but when I try to view them with Windows media player, windows movie maker, or any product that seems to use these as its engine. All I get is audio, no picture. The videos run fine with the quicktime viewer.

I was hoping to use windows movie maker to edit the video clips together and burn a dvd.

What is the deal? I am running Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633: Service pack 1) Windows Movie Maker Version 2.0.3312.0

 

[Larry Gadbois]

Your computer needs the correct codec to view compressed .avi. You could
use a video editing program that handles compressed .avi to convert the
files to .mpg format.

I have a canon powershot s50 digital camera that allows me to take short

video clips. It stores these files as .avi

but when I try to view them with Windows media player, windows movie

maker, or any product that seems to use these as its engine. All I get is
audio, no picture. The videos run fine with the quicktime viewer.

I was hoping to use windows movie maker to edit the video clips together and burn a dvd.

What is the deal? I am running Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Version 5.1

(Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633: Service pack 1) Windows Movie Maker Version
2.0.3312.0

 

[Guest]

I have exactly the same problem. The frustrating thing is that before I upgraded to WMP9 it worked perfectly. Does anybody know where I can the decompressor from?