.avi file format

I have windows 7 and the latest windows media player. it won't play a .avi
audio file. I have installed the latest codecs and it says there are not any
new updates. The file does play with VLC Media Player, however. Am I
missing a setting or? Thanks. This is driving me crazy.

Install the DivX third-party codec (link below) and you should find that your
AVI files will play properly through WMP and any other media players you use.

http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack

Saying that, using WMP with external codecs like this DivX one can make it
all a bit sluggish - for video I generally prefer to use VLC, and just use
WMP for my music library.

On 4/1/2010 10:07 PM, Opinicus wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:08:01 -0700, Cheryl
> <> wrote:
>
>> I have windows 7 and the latest windows media player. it won't play a .avi
>> audio file. I have installed the latest codecs and it says there are not any
>> new updates. The file does play with VLC Media Player, however.
>
> Are you getting sound but no video or video but no sound with WiMP? Or
> nothing at all?
>
> If the file is downloaded from Usenet it's almost certainly XViD
> format. You'll need to install either the XViD or DiVX codecs to play
> it with WiMP.
>
> Small quibble: .AVI is a "video" format...
>

The player supports DIVX/XVID by default upon Windows 7, so this is
probably something else.

The question would be what codec the file *does* use... =\

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