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MPTech:
I finally located and downloaded a video I had been searching for quite some time.

When I clicked it, Windows Media player launched, but I didn't get the video, just the audio and the "Music Visualizations", no video.

I did a quick google on "avi players" and found this:  GDiVXZen1.2.exe
but it wants to install some coupon / internet crap, and I don't want to deal with that.

So I downloaded "AVIMoviePlayer50.exe", but when I start it and select my video, I get sound and some messed up / pixelated video that doesn't move.

The file I'm trying to play ends in ".....DSR XviD - NoTV.avi".
Is that a code for something else I need to be running?  Does this have anything to do with codecs? (I don't know what those are, but I know they can mess you if you don't have them).

Any suggestions please?

Thanks guys

J_K_M_A_N:
You could try classic media player. That seems to play pretty much anything I throw at it. You may need to get some different codecs though. I once installed some on mine so maybe I have just been lucky.

J_K_M_A_N

MPTech:
I've never had a problem playing anything before.  How do I determine what codec(s) I need?

Cakemeister:

--- Quote from: MPTech on September 08, 2007, 04:25:09 pm ---I finally located and downloaded a video I had been searching for quite some time.

When I clicked it, Windows Media player launched, but I didn't get the video, just the audio and the "Music Visualizations", no video.

I did a quick google on "avi players" and found this:  GDiVXZen1.2.exe
but it wants to install some coupon / internet crap, and I don't want to deal with that.

So I downloaded "AVIMoviePlayer50.exe", but when I start it and select my video, I get sound and some messed up / pixelated video that doesn't move.

The file I'm trying to play ends in ".....DSR XviD - NoTV.avi".
Is that a code for something else I need to be running?  Does this have anything to do with codecs? (I don't know what those are, but I know they can mess you if you don't have them).

Any suggestions please?

Thanks guys

--- End quote ---

The "Xvid" in the filename probably means the video was encoded with the Xvid codec.

I'm not sure whether "codec" is short for "compression-decompression" or "coding-decoding", but nevertheless you still need it.

I personally like the mplayer video player but I am a DOS-head and I like command line stuff.

I searched for "koepi xvid codec download" and got this link.



jbox:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm

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