My Windows Media Player 10 won't play .avi format files?

Question

It just play the sound, but I cannot see the video. What can I do? I tried to install some codecs or something called ffdshow but some files still won't play. Please advise.

Answer 1

Please forget downloading all those codecs etc.

When you want to play your .avi files, all you do in install Gomplayer.

It is free and does play all file types, .avi, .mov. divx, .flv, wmv, mpeg and many more.

All you do is go to preferences   --  others     ---     select all

File Types   -  Codec

http://www.download.com/GOM-Media-Player...

Answer 2

You can do the codec thing if you want.  I use VLC Media Player and never have to worry.  It plays anything.

Answer 3

kick the screen with all the force you can muster and then jump up and down on it..... give it 10minutes and it should be fine then

Answer 4

Bro,

Go to www.9down.com, and download the latest codec.

Or upgrade to the latest version of media player

Answer 5

You need to download these codecs:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Code...

You don't really need the subtitle ones or the Morgan thing.  Just the others, the Xvid, DivX, AC3 filter and the OGG stuff.

Answer 6

You need to download two programs: "DivX Bundle" and "XPCodecPack-234", and it will work after that. Hope that helps!

Answer 7

You probably don't have the codec needed to play that AVI.

Just go to this website and install k-lite Mega Codec Pack. It will install all the codecs you need to play ANY kind of video and audio files (recommended)(FREE):

http://freeprogz.net/audio-video/codec-p...

Or you can use one of these players (they have all the codecs built in)(FREE):

http://freeprogz.net/audio-video/players...

http://freeprogz.net/audio-video/players...

If none of the above worked, then your avi file is broken or corrupted...

Answer 8

http://www.manifest-tech.com/media_pc/av...