Bad avi?

[quadclops]

I have some avi's that when I try to play them, only the audio plays. When I tried to use TMPGEnc to convert them to mpeg it said, "can not open or unsupported" for the video but will except the same file for the audio. So do I have some bad files or is there something I can do, some repair software or something??

JO

[maxqa]

This probably happens because you dont have the codec on your pc that the avi is encoded with. Sometimes you wont get anyting to play and sometimes just the audio.

A couple of suggestions:-

1) Try playing in media player whilst connected to the internet. It may be able to locate the correct codec automatically.

2) If not it is probably a divx avi and you need the divx codecs. Just goto the tools sections on this site....the links are there.


hope this helps.