Can't see AVI files when i play them on my WMP11

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rikanking1981 - 24 Mar 2008 09:44 GMT

I try to play avi files only hear the sound. Why can't i see the picture?
Could anyone help me?

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Opinicus - 24 Mar 2008 13:21 GMT

>I try to play avi files only hear the sound. Why can't i see the picture?

You don't have the proper video codec installed. Most likely candidate is
DiVX:
http://labs.divx.com/Codec?cid=startmenu

You only need the codec. Don't bother with the player and other crap they
try and force on you.

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dragon1 - 28 Mar 2008 05:01 GMT

I'm also having trouble playing avi clips. I've ensured the avi box is
checked along with all the other formats listed AND I've gone to your
suggested web site and downloaded the codec from DivX with just the codec ,
not the other stuff and still no luck. It just says "Ran out of Memory" and
to turn off other programs and then try again. I know I'm not out of
memory...I have 3gigs of RAM and 4 gigs of Cache and another 125MB of video
RAM on my NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS...so what gives....do I need to unistall Vers
11 and go back to 10. This system is a 2 week old DELL and came with version
11 even though it has a factory installed XP OS.(my choice..long live XP)

> >I try to play avi files only hear the sound. Why can't i see the picture?
>
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> You only need the codec. Don't bother with the player and other crap they
> try and force on you.

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zachd [MSFT] - 30 Mar 2008 19:22 GMT

"ran out of memory" either indicates that the file is corrupt or the codec
is corrupt.

Which specific divx codec are you using? There's many many many versions,
many with serious bugs.

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> I'm also having trouble playing avi clips. I've ensured the avi box is
> checked along with all the other formats listed AND I've gone to your
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>> You only need the codec. Don't bother with the player and other crap they
>> try and force on you.

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Tom Frank - 30 Mar 2008 06:28 GMT

I have the same problem, but only with .AVI files produced by my Canon
camera. I checked the clip using G-Spot to see what codec is used. It
reported its just Motion JPEG (STVCodec), and it confirmed the code is
installed on my PC. But nothing will display the video EXCEPT QUICKTIME, of
all things! Sheesh! I can't edit the clips in WMM either because of this.
I'm at a loss to figure it out. Other .AVI filoe using the Motion JPEG
codec are dec oded and played just fine... something about files produced
with the Canon camera is different.

>>I try to play avi files only hear the sound. Why can't i see the picture?
>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> You only need the codec. Don't bother with the player and other crap they
> try and force on you.

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zachd [MSFT] - 31 Mar 2008 05:53 GMT

If you put that sample file that fails up somewhere (yousendit, megaupload,
etc) I can look at it, I'll take a gander. =)

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>I have the same problem, but only with .AVI files produced by my Canon
>camera. I checked the clip using G-Spot to see what codec is used. It
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>> You only need the codec. Don't bother with the player and other crap they
>> try and force on you.

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