Only getting sound when playing avi files

barriejohn69 · 4 January 2010 at 5:51PM

Hi,

I bought my dad an external hard drive for Christmas and put a lot of films etc in there in an avi format.

I tested each film on my laptop and it played but on his computer we are only getting sound and the swirly computer generated graphic screen.

What program should I download to get the files to work?

If it makes any difference I am using vista and he uses xp.

Thanks in advance

pcombo · 4 January 2010 at 5:52PM

you dont have the correct codec installed. Install VLC that has most codecs with it and easy to use.

barriejohn69 · 4 January 2010 at 5:58PM

Thanks, I'll have a look for it using google and see if it works.

Donnie · 4 January 2010 at 9:44PM

Sledgehammer:Nut

An XviD MPEG4 CoDec is all that is needed.

Freebyman · 4 January 2010 at 10:21PM

You could try this program, it will sort out any problem you get if the ones above dont work.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

busenbust · 4 January 2010 at 10:53PM

As another poster said VLC Media Player is an excellent choice :cool:

Only getting sound when playing avi files

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