Requesting video geek help

[drwex]

AVI files. I can't play 'em. I've tried Winamp and WMP, including a fresh clean install of the latest versions of both. In both cases I get the sound from the file but no visual. These are AVIs downloaded from the net and reported good by other people. Winamp doesn't report any errors - WMP flashes a brief note about some problem with the codec.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: and the winner is the VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc) suggestion from frobzwiththingz and ciani. Thanks all!

Comments

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

"AVI" is just a container format. the actual codecs used inside could be just about anything. As far as a player, on Windows i tend to use "vlc". It's freeware, and will deal with just about *anything*.

[drwex]

Yep. Win! Thank you and ciani.

[ciani.livejournal.com]

try VLC. I've had that problem on my MAC and VLC works perfectly.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Will that work on a mac as well or doesn't it matter?

[ciani.livejournal.com]

I only use it on a mac, but it works really well and has multiple platforms which is why I suggested it :)

[drwex]

Thanks, getting VLC downloaded now.

[ciani.livejournal.com]

I hope it works for you! I suspect it will. It supports a wide variety of formats.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Motik, can you download it to the mac as well please?

[drwex]

You can do it - follow the link in Ciani's comment and pick the "Mac" download option.

[nchanter.livejournal.com]

Most of my AVI filed are divx. Try downloading that codec.

[drwex]

It appears that VLC can handle divx. We shall see.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

yup, strugged with that one... installing the divx codec seemed to clear up the problem so the AVI could play in quicktime. *shrug*

[drwex]

I looked for a divx codec for quicktime (my preferred player) but didn't find one. WMP offered to download one automatically, but when I tried that, I got errors.