AVI problem

Space Chief · Post by **Space Chief** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:49 pm

Hi, I'm Space Chief. I've just gotten into a-m-v.org but I've noticed that a lot of the videos are in AVI format. When I try to play them, it goes to Windows Media Player, the 'visualizations' come on, and I can hear but not see what I'm playing. Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with this? It's pretty frustrating.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:52 pm

you need to download either a codec pack or ffdshow or something

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:55 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/playback/

this might help explain better than me

iBakaUnot · Post by **iBakaUnot** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:28 am

i would go grab the K-lite mega codec pack, it has codecs for every media type i can think of

Perfect-Blue · Post by **Perfect-Blue** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:40 am

what about h264?

Storm Codec and CCCP codec pack (thnks to Crafty_Shadow)are perfect choise...but not all stuff from Storm COdec

GDB-poon · Post by **GDB-poon** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:21 am

www.divx.com

that site has the codec you need to watch .avi files

Zaphod_Beeblebrox · Post by **Zaphod_Beeblebrox** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:25 pm

GDB-poon wrote:www.divx.com

that site has the codec you need to watch .avi files

No. That site has the codec you need if you want to watch .avi files compressed with DivX and DivX compatible XviD, .avi is a container, not a compression method.

GDB-poon · Post by **GDB-poon** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:46 pm

Zaphod_Beeblebrox wrote:
GDB-poon wrote:www.divx.com

that site has the codec you need to watch .avi files
No. That site has the codec you need if you want to watch .avi files compressed with DivX and DivX compatible XviD, .avi is a container, not a compression method.

when this topic was started...it was to ask how to watch .avi files becasue when this person opened a .avi file in windows media player the audio would come on but not the picture...
www.divx.com has the codec u need to watch .avi files...
there are other codecs that exists...
but that is one of them...

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:52 pm

GDB-poon wrote:
Zaphod_Beeblebrox wrote:
GDB-poon wrote:www.divx.com

that site has the codec you need to watch .avi files
No. That site has the codec you need if you want to watch .avi files compressed with DivX and DivX compatible XviD, .avi is a container, not a compression method.
when this topic was started...it was to ask how to watch .avi files becasue when this person opened a .avi file in windows media player the audio would come on but not the picture...
www.divx.com has the codec u need to watch .avi files...
there are other codecs that exists...
but that is one of them...

Stop saying "THE codec you need to watch .avi files". It's wrong.
There is no one codec that will work for them all.

How do you know that the video the OP is trying to play wasn't encoded with, say, 3ivX or XviD without a DivX FourCC?

GDB-poon · Post by **GDB-poon** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:39 pm

i also said thata there are others