.avi

[Unregistered]

hi there,

When I download a movie, the movie is a winamp-media file so I can't open it with Windows Media Player. Also I can't convert it with dbPoweramp. He don't support the audio type ".avi" . He says that I can find it on this site, but I can't!!

Can anyone help me with my problem??

[Spoons]

Re: .avi

dbpoweramp doesn't play .avi movie files.

[Unregistered]

Re: .avi

what can I download that I can play the movie? do you know that?

[Spoons]

Re: .avi

windows media player should be able to. just open windows media player then click open file to look for the .avi you have and it should play it. or try quicktime player http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

[Unregistered]

Re: .avi

ok thanks I will try it...

[Unregistered]

Re: .avi

when I open it with Quiktime, "Quicktime is missing software required to play this movie"

[ChristinaS]

Re: .avi

How big is this .avi file? Uncompressed .avi can be huge and cover only a few minutes. Compressed .avi will be more reasonable, but again they are quite large files. A 5-minute music video in compressed .avi format can be 1GB, depending on many factors, such as frame size.

More importantly, .avi files can in fact be encoded in many different ways.

You may be able to find out about the file if you right click on the file name, select Properties > Summary . If offered the button Advanced, click on that too.

Take a good look at what you see there, if you were able to get that far.

Attached is a picture of what the properites of one of my .avi files look like. This one can play without a hitch in Windows Media Player. How do your .avi file's properties compare with mine? We may glimpse something from that.

You could also read the thread: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=5655 for a bit more info on Video converisons.

[savagcl]

Re: .avi

Try this page and click on the "software" that you'll see there. Download
DIVX and install it. So far, it has played every avi file i have downloaded.

http://www.divx.com/

You can also look for a small program called "GSpot" (google it). This
program can be used to determine the video codex used to create the file
in question. Once the codex is known, another google should be able to find
it for you. Then when the right codex is installed, the avi should play.

good hunting,
savagcl