Importing AVI file

[Guest]

I have an AVI file of my son's graduation which will play in Media Player 9
on my old computer running ME. I cannot run it in MP9 on my new machine
running XP Home. I get the sound track but no video.

I wish to create a movie from this using WMM but cannot import it into WMM.
I get an error message advising the appropriate codec is not available.
Despite attempts to automatically download the codec WMM is unable to do so.

Can anyone tell me how I can resolve this issue.

 

[Guest]

I have an AVI file of my son's graduation which will play in Media Player 9
on my old computer running ME. I cannot run it in MP9 on my new machine
running XP Home. I get the sound track but no video.

I wish to create a movie from this using WMM but cannot import it into WMM.
I get an error message advising the appropriate codec is not available.
Despite attempts to automatically download the codec WMM is unable to do so.

Can anyone tell me how I can resolve this issue.

 

[Wojo]

Check out this site to download the codec:
http://www.free-codecs.com/
-Wojo

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your message Wojo.

I went to the site and downloaded the XP Codec Pack, installed it but the
WMM problem isn't resolved.

Can you suggest / indicate the oppropriate set of codecs I should download.

I have also downloaded and installed the latest DivX but that hasn't
resolved the issue either. Any further idea would be appreciated as I am out
of them myself.

Cheers

 

[Wojo]

I also am out of ideas here, the XP Codec Pack should have done the trick,
the only thing I can think of is that the codec(s) already installed are
corrupt and in need of removal.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

the downloaded codec packs help you play files in your Windows Media Player,
but even if they play well there, they may not work in Movie Maker.... it's
a codec issue that needs file conversion to something else that does work.

see the Importing Source Files > Video > AVI page of my site.
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