Windows AVI video problems?

Question

Okay I have Rob and Big Season 1 and 2 on my computer I got from a friend. And their AVI files. I put them on my other hard drive, along with a whole bunch of other stuff, and I formatted my computer (Cause it was a virus carneval in there).

And now with my new cleaned up computer, all my videos work, EXCEPT those. They don't play audio, or video, just a time line. I open them up on Windows Media Player 11 I think, the latest one that looks like vista.

So what should I do?

Answer 1

Try playing them with VLC.  It has codecs installed within it and will play most anything.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

WMP is very limited in the types of encoded video files that it can play.

Answer 2

If all the other files that played were also AVI, then your ripped Season might have been damaged or is missing files. Try re-ripping it, or just downloading it again.