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re: Question about 'How do I reset...' : Playing AVI video files
Sunday, August 24, 2003 at 2:58 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Amy
(1 messages posted)
I have XP, tried downloading WMP 9.1 and still couldn't play avi's. i went to http://www.divx.com/divx/
downloaded the codec. It worked for me. Thanks Jon :)
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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