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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: ozbert on June 28, 2003, 04:24:02 am

Title: AVI Videos
Post by: ozbert on June 28, 2003, 04:24:02 am

My previous version of Media Centre played AVI Videos fine, but since upgrading to the latest version they don't.  Anyone got ideas how to get this working?

Title: Re: AVI Videos
Post by: lOth on June 28, 2003, 06:09:38 am

Is your avi on a CD or removable media?

Title: Re: AVI Videos
Post by: ozbert on June 28, 2003, 03:05:47 pm

Hi, Thanks for replying.

My AVI files are on my hard disk.

Title: Re: AVI Videos
Post by: nila on June 28, 2003, 03:33:37 pm

any information on what exactly is happening or what type of avi's they are?

Are they divx's? Whats the problem your having with them?

Title: Re: AVI Videos
Post by: sraymond on June 29, 2003, 10:47:29 am

Remember that AVI is a "container" for any of many different CODECS (such as MPEG2, MPEG4 (DivX, XVID), etc., etc.).  As Nila points out, it would help to know what specific CODEC is causing a problem.

As an example, I recently noticed that MPEG1s (VCDs) don't work with .avi extensions in the library (they show as audio only).  They still play fine, though.  Changing the extension to .mpg fixed the problem.

If you don't know what the codec is, get a program called AVICODEC, which will tell you the 4CC code for the CODEC.

Scott-