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How to deect what is required to play AVI

  • 07-11-2007 12:39pm
    #1
    learnerplates
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭


    I have movie clip in avi format but none of my players wmp, realplayer are able to play it, the error just says it's unsupported. How can I find out what is required?

    I also tried converting to dvd with ConvertXToDVD but got an error too.

    How can I find what codec or wahatever is required to play or conert to dvd?


Comments

  • #2
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    http://www.headbands.com/gspot/


  • #3
    real_484
    Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭real_484


    media player classic play nearly every thing i throw at it, with K-lite codec mega pack

    http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm

    if not VLC media player will do it.

    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    gspot is very helpful too to tell about codec you have


  • #4
    learnerplates
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭learnerplates


    no luck, tere's definitely somethinh up with the file, gspot looks like a handy app but even it can't detect the details of the file:eek:


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    AVI is just an envelope. The file header says which codec to use. Which can even include codecs implemented by a proprietary piece of hardware.

    I have an old 160MHz 486 with a Hardware Video Editing card that still does codecs not commonly available on PCs on any Media Player in Software. I can use Adobe Premiere on Windows for WorkGroups or Win98 to transcode. The old ISA card is not supported on anything other than WFWG3.11 and Win95. I managed to get the Win95 drivers working on Win98. NT4.0, Win ME, Win2K, XP etc is impossible.

    Some applications don't even write the header properly making AVIs with VERY limited compatibility.


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