Playing AVI files?

Drea

How do I play AVI files? I'm sure that my old computer used nero but it's saying I need to pay for it? What can I download for free that will let me play my films?

Thanks for any help :beer:

[Deleted User]

Try VLC media player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

That'll play nearly anything you throw at it

Drea

Oh thanks, we used to have that one too because nero didn't play a certain type of file.

samhale

Windows Media Player???

weegie.geek

samhale wrote: »

Windows Media Player???

WMP as it comes will play hardly anything, and it's an awfully slow and bloated piece of software. You can, of course, install the necessary codecs and get it playing most things.

VLC will play most things without needing codecs installed. It's got a horrid interface, mind you.

samhale

weegie.geek wrote: »

WMP as it comes will play hardly anything, and it's an awfully slow and bloated piece of software. You can, of course, install the necessary codecs and get it playing most things.

VLC will play most things without needing codecs installed. It's got a horrid interface, mind you.

It'll play virtually anything straight away, but if you need it you can download the xvid and divx codecs.

BexTech

Drea wrote: »

How do I play AVI files? I'm sure that my old computer used nero but it's saying I need to pay for it? What can I download for free that will let me play my films?

Thanks for any help :beer:

Remember .AVI is only a wrapper and the actual vide/audio inside could be anything, be it DivX, xViD etc. Therefore you need the actual codecs for what's inside the AVI, GSpot program is a good program to tell you what codecs are used by the .avi file you are trying to play.

VLC does seem to do a good job.