AVI Audio plays but not video

[theholygod]

Hi everyone

A friend of mine has been having some trouble trying to play an AVI file on his computer, audio works fine but there is no picture.

He claims to have tried many different media players (wmp, realplayer, quicktime, AVIplayer) but none of them are playing video.

I suggested he try downloading divx but he seems to already have it.

I assume he is missing a video codec of some kind, anyone have any idea what it could be?

[Timmychuck]

Use VideoInspector to find what codec to use. It could be a XviD video file.

[Seeker47]

Hi everyone

A friend of mine has been having some trouble trying to play an AVI file on his computer, audio works fine but there is no picture.

He claims to have tried many different media players (wmp, realplayer, quicktime, AVIplayer) but none of them are playing video.

I suggested he try downloading divx but he seems to already have it.

I assume he is missing a video codec of some kind, anyone have any idea what it could be?

You may be right about the codec, but, for whatever it may be worth, I often run into video files that just won't play. A lot of these are very likely corrupt at download, but many of them aren't. AVIs could be just about anything, and a lot of them are picky and flakey about playback. Lately, I've been finding a number of AVIs that only seem to play on the DIVX player (recent version) -- and I don't think they are all even DIVX or XVID encoded !! I keep meaning to install some of the generalized players recommended here, such as VLC, GOM, etc. If you have a few of these on hand, and as long as they don't cause conflicts with each other, you should stand a better chance of being able to play various video files, so long as they are playable. Or, at least that's one near-newbie's theory du jour.