Media Player on Vista RTM

[Mike]

I am running Vista Enterprise RTM and the media 11 that gets installed with
vista does not like avi or mpeg files. Is there a way to deinstall media
player and reinstall it.

 

[Dennis Pack]

Mike:
You have to add the codec package to play .AVI files. ffdshow has a
package that plays .AVI files on WMP11.

 

[Scott]

Dennis Pack spake thusly on 1/17/2007 1:14 PM:

Mike:
You have to add the codec package to play .AVI files. ffdshow has
a package that plays .AVI files on WMP11.

That's odd. AVI is the old Microsoft Video for Windows format.....

 

[Mike Brannigan]

Dennis Pack spake thusly on 1/17/2007 1:14 PM:


That's odd. AVI is the old Microsoft Video for Windows format.....

The AVI format may contain files encoded using a variety of codecs.
So while the extension is AVI the player may not have the right codec
to play the file.

 

[Scott]

Mike Brannigan spake thusly on 1/18/2007 6:18 AM:

The AVI format may contain files encoded using a variety of codecs.
So while the extension is AVI the player may not have the right codec
to play the file.

I guess I've only come across that with DivX