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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Watching AVI Video

I turned a friend of mine on to Bit Torrent recently, and he had trouble watching certain episodes he downloaded. Here is some common AVI and codec information as well as a few tools to help anyone get their AVI videos up and running.

Audio Video Interleave is a common multimedia format with the file extension .avi at the end of it. AVI files are most commonly used for videos. To play an AVI file a media player is needed. WMP (Windows Media Player) is the standard video software player for PCs. If WMP will not play the AVI resulting in an error message, or if the AVI only plays audio there is a problem with the codec. Codec is an abbreviation for Coder/Decoder. When AVI video files are compressed a codec is used. Basically, the same type of codec needs to be used to view the contents of the AVI file. There are many codecs to choose from, but here are a few easy ways to fix the problem.

VLC media player is an easy download, and in my experience solves most AVI viewing problems. VLC is both a media player as well as codec, and it is open source which is always preferable. If VLC does not work, it is possible to install codec packs. Codec packs include a vast number of codecs. Although I do not recommend this route, here is a popular codec pack: K-Lite 4.0.0

One more note is that it is possible to find out how a video was compressed in order to use the correct codec to view the video, but if you know how to do this, then it is assumed you would not need help on this issue. Enjoy your AVI’s!

Posted by Jerry at 5:34 PM

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