I can't play AVIs (12)

1 Name: Blarag 2006-01-01 07:43 ID:2DTlrur8

I seem to have lost the ability to play avi files. All of sudden none of them will play. They don't work in Windows Media Player, the Core Media Player, Quicktime, or Realplayer. Can anyone tell me what might be causing this?

2 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-01 09:50 ID:Heaven

only thing i can think of is maybe some sort of drm software is installed that prevents you from playing them...
if this is what the problem is, here are a couple possible solutions:

  • don't use windows. use os x, bsd, or linux instead.
  • don't buy cd's. download stuff from p2p instead.

3 Name: Redhatter 2006-01-01 12:04 ID:Heaven

What format are these AVI's in? AVI is just a container.

I've got some which are very basic, 8-bit PCM audio with RLE-compressed video... (Yes, I'm talking movies back in Windows 3.1 days) Others using XviD/MP3.

How do they "not play"?

4 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-02 15:12 ID:3kRBZX7p

I agree with >>2 solutions

LOL XD

5 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-04 18:35 ID:cxmu8Cnp

if AVIs don't play your windows box is fucked

6 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-05 00:37 ID:aKXpOHTk

>>5
I have met some morons, but you take the cake.

Go get ffdshow, install it with all options enabled, and then reboot. Alternatively, give VLC a shot.

7 Name: Blarag 2006-01-05 04:50 ID:2DTlrur8

>>6
Oh, thank you very much, kind person. VLC works perfectly.

It's nice to know that there are actual solutions beyond "reformat, install linux"

8 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-05 17:22 ID:Heaven

>>7
that sort of attitude is how we end up with computers with so much spyware on them they slow to a crawl in spite of having a 3.4 GHz processor and 1GB of ram... "oh, i have to do it this way now?" without any questioning of why the system doesn't work the way it used to...

9 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-05 18:36 ID:cxmu8Cnp

>>6 dumbass. if the AVI container is broken then WINDOWS is broken. the op probably meant some codec was broken

10 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-05 23:57 ID:Heaven

>>8
signed.

11 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2006-01-07 04:09 ID:IEw5kv2a

Bleh. I have this program. Just go into Display Properties, Settings tab, Advanced button, and Troubleshooting tab. Set the accelration to none. This worked when my computer would crash every time a video of any sort was played.

heh...had to do it after installing new video drivers from ATI. (or mebbe it's my old Radeon 7000)

12 Name: Redhatter 2006-01-07 16:20 ID:Heaven

I don't recall that problem with my Radeon 7000 ... then again, playing XviD under Win2000 was absolute rubbish I found... the video and audio were rarely in sync, so it'd drop audio or video frames to sync one to the other.

Hence I do my movie playback in Linux.

If newer drivers are the problem, then perhaps it's worth downgrading the drivers to see if that fixes the problem?

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