How Do I Play AVI Files?

[JPS]

What do I use to play AVI files?

I have a digital camera that records AVI files but WMP doesnt support AVI's, and neither does IE

Everytime I try to open one it asks me to save or open, when I choose open it redisplays the dialogue box

[jvrlopez]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

WMP plays .avi on my computer.

Download Divx.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

Media Player Classic. With the right codecs it will play ANYTHING. Even without any it still plays lots of things.

[JPS]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

ok thanks guys

EDIT: DivX doesnt have support for Vista yet, so Im hoping windows classic does

[thetruecoolness]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

Yeah most things will play AVIs, but AVI is not a codec, it's just a file type, so you still need to find what codec the AVI is using. Then if you don't have it you'll have to download it from somewhere. Codecs are a pain, since installing a large codec pack can mess up viewing of a lot of video files.

There is a program called GSpot that will help you determine what codec a video file uses so you can see which one you need http://www.headbands.com/gspot/. It's also compatible with Vista 32-bit.

[Bon]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

If neither of those programs work, go for the VLC media player.

Here is a link: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I use it to play all of my files, and they generally play anything from .avi, .wmv, and I believe it's even able to play .mkv and .ogg files if you happen to have some in your possession. Good luck as well.

[Patryn]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

If you're looking for a good codec pack, I'd suggest Matroska. Since I installed it, I haven't found a single file that MPC couldn't play.

[JPS]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

I installed the mjpg codec for windows media player, but now the computer returns a blue screen anytime I try to play a video and it restarts the computer automatically.

DivX isnt supported with Vista

Now my next problem is fixing WMP, is there a way I can uninstall the mjpg codec or do I have to reinstall WMP altogether?

Ill try the other 2 suggestions and see how those work out

EDIT, I installed VLC and got the same thing I did with WMP, it would play the audio just fine but not the video, I did upload the AVI to youtube and youtube converted it to a playable format, but thats a lot of work transferring videos to youtube.

Where do I get media player classic?

[Syvarius]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

I think this codec pack here has that player.
Not sure though, so.

http://www.cccp-project.net/

[JPS]

Re: How Do I Play AVI Files?

classic didnt play video, only audio

but stupid me I forgot quicktime, it works just fine now

Thanks guys for all the help