.avi files aren't working for me.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2004-05-04 12:47am

Every time I try to use an avi file, nothing happens. Any ideas?

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2004-05-04 12:49am

Probably they were encoded with the Divx codec. Go download the Divx codec here.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2004-05-04 12:55am

Hotfoot wrote:Probably they were encoded with the Divx codec. Go download the Divx codec here.

I already have Divx.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-05-04 01:10am

What player are you using?

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2004-05-04 01:25am

Laird wrote:What player are you using?

RealPlayer.

BoyRocketeer · Post by **BoyRocketeer** » 2004-05-04 03:05am

maybe you need xvid codec http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-05-04 03:12am

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:
Laird wrote:What player are you using?
RealPlayer.

I wouldn't use realplayer to play AVIs. Use something like Windows Media Player instead.

You'll want to grab the xVid codev and ffdshow also.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-05-04 03:18am

Better yet, get Media Player Classic. It does pretty much everything that more recent WMPs do, without the bloat (it uses the 6.x interface, no badly-implemented skins here...)

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-05-04 07:55am

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:
Laird wrote:What player are you using?
RealPlayer.

Urk, why would you do that to yourself? WMP or winamp5 are the ways to go.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-05-04 10:03am

Spyder wrote:
Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:
Laird wrote:What player are you using?
RealPlayer.
Urk, why would you do that to yourself? WMP or winamp5 are the ways to go.

I find Media Player Classic to be the best for video, given that it plays stuff .rm and .mov as well.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-04 11:37am

Get windows media player 9. I've been using it on my anemic computer and it works great. Surprisingly it's even faster than windows media player 7.0.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-05-05 12:45am

Darth_Zod wrote:Get windows media player 9. I've been using it on my anemic computer and it works great. Surprisingly it's even faster than windows media player 7.0.

Its user interface, however, leaves much to be desired.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-05-05 04:04pm

Not really, the only interface I pay attention to is the "play" button

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-05 04:10pm

Crayz9000 wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:Get windows media player 9. I've been using it on my anemic computer and it works great. Surprisingly it's even faster than windows media player 7.0.
Its user interface, however, leaves much to be desired.

it's simple to navigate and plays all the important media file types. what more could you want?

J · Post by J » 2004-05-05 06:29pm

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:Every time I try to use an avi file, nothing happens. Any ideas?

Obviously this is part of Ashcroft's great plan to prevent people from watching porn on their computers.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-05-06 06:46pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
Crayz9000 wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:Get windows media player 9. I've been using it on my anemic computer and it works great. Surprisingly it's even faster than windows media player 7.0.
Its user interface, however, leaves much to be desired.
it's simple to navigate and plays all the important media file types. what more could you want?

What I mean by that is that the default skin has all of jack and shit to do with the default Windows interface. Nothing is where you expect it to be, which from a UI perspective is a very bad thing.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-05-06 07:32pm

I use Media Player 2.

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