What do you use when WMP unable to play *.WMV, *.AVI.

[pwangdel]

Greetings:

I download several *.avi, *.wmv from France and I am unable to play it. Most of them can be played either with Window Media Player, BSPlayer or MV2Player. However, a few can't be played. WMP shows an error message "Windows Media Player encountered an unknown error.", BSPlayer a blank screen and MV2Player a "failure" message. Is there anything else out there that can either fix or analyze and pinpoint to the problems?

Thanks in advance for your time and help.

[poisondeathray]

Can you play the few unplayable files with VLC? (it has self contained internal codecs)

Use mediainfo to determine what audio & video codecs are used by the file

Then there is the possibility that the files are corrupt, or fake files

[pwangdel]

The Mediainfo and VLC are great.

Thank you much for your help.