What program do I need to play 'avi' files on? Where can I download this? Thanks?
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The Windows Media Player, included in Windows XP, is able to play (most) avi files. Microsoft invented the avi format as part of Windows 3.0.  However, other companies have created their own versions of the avi format, some of which do not play with the Media Player without downloading a coder/decoder (codec) for the file.  The most common alternate avi codec is called Div-X.  You can download it for free from www.divx.com.  It includes a free Div-X player that does a good job of playing avi (and other) files that some people like better than Media Player.
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what program are you using to play them and how old is your computer? the avi file may also be bad and thats why it does that.
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You need divx codecs to play most .avi files.\n\nGo to divx.com (http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/?tiger_aff=s&cc=A_fcid=000055 ) and download their latest divx codecs, it will allow you to play .avi files.\n\nNote: Having all and most up-to-date codecs installed on your computer will allow you to play any media format.
1033226
yea u dont need to, wmp will play it perfectly\n\nbut if u want to, then download windows media encoder 9 from microsoft.com its free
1049353
You need a different player that you don't currently have installed on your computer to play that specific file.  Probably Real or Quicktime.  If you click there, it will automatically download the program for you.\n\nDifferent filetypes may only be compatible with one or another player.
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AVI2DVD\nDIKO\nFAVC\nDivx2DVD\nand more\n\nhttp://www.videohelp.com/tools
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windows player you can download addons to it\nthere are tons of them\ngo to downloads.com and look for freeware avi player they will pop up tons\nthey have free and trial products
931564
Just use the regular video embed code. It should play using quicktime like a normal quicktime file.
651947
If you have the proper codec(s) installed, just open the .avi file with WMP. If you need the codecs, one popular one is Divx (from www.divx.org). Otherwise do a search for "codec pack" and download one of those.
1006471
Use whatever burn program you want, then goto www.vlc.com and download the player. After you do that, you can play anything: Ipod, svcd, vcd, divx, xvid, avi, rm,....etc
10495
you can use flash2video\nor video2flash\nor win avi converter
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it is a movie file, but windows media player often has trouble playing avi files, and sometimes has trouble even if you have the codec installed.\n\ngo to www.divx.com. there you can download a media player that will play .avi files perfectly.
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I think this free. Converts flash to .avi
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its probably an .avi file.\n\ndownload divx player its free\nhttp://www.download.com/DivX-Player-with-DivX-Codec-/3000-2139_4-10062728.html
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quicktime has a serious nack about playing avis  try video lan it seems to do pretty good they have one for in and mac  http://videolan.org that should work i use it
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some DVD players cannot play .avi format so you can either:\n\n1. convert your .avi files to mpeg files and burn them to your DVD. theres a lot of free converters out there and you can check www.download.com.\n\n2. look for a software that burns video files into DVD automatically so that you wouldn't have to worry about file formats since these softwares converts them automatically anyways. I think you can use ULEAD for this though I think NERO also has it.
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You need to download the free codecs and player, link provided!