Nothing will recognize the supposed .avi files I downloaded?

[pyrate83]

I can't seem to get anything to recognize the file type. It all says invalid file type so I was wondering if there is something or some way I can convert the file into a new format recognizable to all software. Right now the only thing that will play the .avi files is Divx player but everything else says it's not supported. What should I do since I would like to watch these files on a regular DVD player.
Thanks

[jimmalenko]

Sounds like a codec issue. Does WMP play it ? Have you re-installed the latest DivX codec ? Can you identify the codec it is using ?

[hhhhbk]

get avicodec to identify what codec the file is using
then download it
my money is on "divx 5.11" or "xvid koepi 1.0 rc 4" playing it

if you want to convert to a dvd which works in a regular dvd player then check out the guides

strange question for someone with 500+ posts on a video conversion site
unless this is a one off file that that is using some weird codec
i came across the on2vp3 codec on a file a couple of weeks ago
just use avicodec to find out what the codec is then search the forum for it
if i were a bookmaker i would offer odds of 100-1 that its already been talked about :P

[pyrate83]

get avicodec to identify what codec the file is using
then download it
my money is on "divx 5.11" or "xvid koepi 1.0 rc 4" playing it

if you want to convert to a dvd which works in a regular dvd player then check out the guides

strange question for someone with 500+ posts on a video conversion site
unless this is a one off file that that is using some weird codec
i came across the on2vp3 codec on a file a couple of weeks ago
just use avicodec to find out what the codec is then search the forum for it
if i were a bookmaker i would offer odds of 100-1 that its already been talked about :P

Alright, thanks for your suggestions. As for my 500+ posts, I mainly post in the off topic forums but I have never dealt with burning these types of files to DVD to be played by a DVD player. I usually just stick to DVD backups which I have down now and no problems at all. But thanks again for your info.

[hhhhbk]

get avicodec to identify what codec the file is using
then download it
my money is on "divx 5.11" or "xvid koepi 1.0 rc 4" playing it

if you want to convert to a dvd which works in a regular dvd player then check out the guides

strange question for someone with 500+ posts on a video conversion site
unless this is a one off file that that is using some weird codec
i came across the on2vp3 codec on a file a couple of weeks ago
just use avicodec to find out what the codec is then search the forum for it
if i were a bookmaker i would offer odds of 100-1 that its already been talked about :P

Alright, thanks for your suggestions. As for my 500+ posts, I mainly post in the off topic forums but I have never dealt with burning these types of files to DVD to be played by a DVD player. I usually just stick to DVD backups which I have down now and no problems at all. But thanks again for your info.

thought you may have been another mod wannabe trying to trick people into talking about downloading copyrighted material then reporting them

glad your not 8)

[teegee420]

thought you may have been another mod wannabe trying to trick people into talking about downloading copyrighted material then reporting them

How messed up is THAT?! Now we are starting to question the validity of the questions?!

[pyrate83]

thought you may have been another mod wannabe trying to trick people into talking about downloading copyrighted material then reporting them

How messed up is THAT?! Now we are starting to question the validity of the questions?!

That's sad if that's what some people here try to do. I can only hope that there aren't that many DVDrhelp forumers that try to pull that.

[pyrate83]

Hey really neat program, got the appropriate codec to play the files and voila, now I will be able to burn them to a DVD.

Thanks as usual! :P