AVI file not playing.

[tinaandliz]

Hi there, I have downloaded films and they happen to be AVI files, but the wont play on media player, they play but like a song, no picture. Can any1 help me. Another thing, Copied a CD and the files are CD audio tracks and I cant convert them to put them onto my mp3 player, because thy wont go on as CDA? Anyone help me at all ?

[markysngc]

for the AVI you will need the correct codec installed, download the codec pack from here

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Codec_Pack _All_In_1.htm

And install should sort that out.

For the mp3 you need to do what is called ripping the CD not copying it, a free cd ripper is available here

http://www.nch.com.au/rip/index.html

this will extract the audio tracks from the cd and save them on your computer as mp3s ready to be transfered to a mp3 player

[tinaandliz]

Well, as i have Vista i downloaded Vista codecs, and still AVI files wont play, will i still need to dload that thing u mentioned, plus The CD question.. By ripping the CD on WMP will that work instead of using the one u suggested ?

[markysngc]

ok it is defiantly a codec that you haven't got that is stopping the AVI playing, but not being a vista user I wouldn't like to comment on which is best codec pack for vista.

Yes WMP will rip cd's as well, I personally don't like WMP but if you get on with it use that, you'll just have to make sure that either your MP3 player will play WMA's or change the setting in WMP's options to rip as MP3 instead of WMA

[tinaandliz]

Ok many thanks, all i need to find out now is what the best codec pasck is for Vista. x

[cado]

what's a - FALSE POSITIVE? saw it on the download site.

[bimbim]

You could use VLC media player from here : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ plays AVIs