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re: Question about 'How do I reset...' : Playing AVI video files
Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 11:15 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ben O'neil
(1 messages posted)
i have recently being having problems with my media player mpg s work fine but when
i download avis it does not show me that it is downloadeing it just says conecting....
when it finaly loads it has sound but has no picture it just shows swirly colours
like when you play a cd on it. i have downloaded a DivX but it did't work i don't
know if i dowloaded it into the right file could u please help me
thank you
Ben O'Neil
On Friday, January 3, 2003 at 6:02 am, Jon wrote:
>The above posting may well be right, but another possibility is that some AVIs are
>encoded using DivX codec. You'll need to download it (search the web for DivX, it's
>a fairly small, free download) then install it. It's fairly common to AVIs to need
>this. This should solve the problem of sound and no picture.
>
>As for Format Not Supported, this is often caused on an AVI by the download not
completing
>in full. Unlike on an MPEG, the index table for an AVI is at the end of the file,
>so if you don't complete the download, it can't play any of it. With MPEGs it's
at
>the beginning, so you can quickly start to preview a file while it's downloading.
>The solution is to get a small program (I forget the name, you can get it off Download.com,
>search for AVI editing tools or something) which strips the index table from AVIs
>and rebuilds it, enabling you to view the clip. It's not 100% perfect, but it usually
>works.
>
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