i was wondering if anyone know why my windows media player 11, windows vista os, isn't playing avi files??...or if anyone can point a specific codec for me to play avi files...i thought microsoft came up with avi, and windows media player was made to play with it??...i guess i'm wrong, but thanks for any help yall may offer
2007-05-07 16:01:19 · 6 answers · asked by themug05 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
The .avi extension is not specific to any single encoding scheme and could represent at least several different video formats including Divx, Xvid, H.264, etc.
The K-Lite Codec pack includes all of the necessary CODECs to view just about anything. You can download it for free here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
Good luck!
2007-05-07 16:05:59 · answer #1 · answered by Gamer2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
open windows media player, click the arrow under one of the menu bars (library will work). In more options you will find a bar labeled file types. In file types you will NOT find avi? Possibly they ditched it cause I thought I could with WMP10. If you uninstall 11 it will automatically revert to 10. And for the sake of your PC do not download codecs for media player. It's a windows product they will give you safe un-trojaned codecs.
2007-05-07 16:10:46 · answer #2 · answered by anton t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
windows media player 11 is still having problems running on vista. you should roll back your player to media player 10 untill windows announces that the bugs have been worked out. thats what i had to do... yea, it sucks, but hey... 10 works jsut as good as 11...
2007-05-07 16:10:11 · answer #3 · answered by Dork with Questions 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You’re probably missing the video codec for it. To find out which video codec you need, run one of the tools listed on this page and find out what the fourcc is.
http://www.moviecodec.com/questions/neededcodec.html
2007-05-07 16:07:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to download the extra codecs just google codecs and download the package for media player
2007-05-07 16:04:19 · answer #5 · answered by younghumanbookofknowledge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vlc media player plays avi
2007-05-07 16:03:43 · answer #6 · answered by will d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋