Re: WMP 9 won't play .avi files

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:02:17 -0800, "jbclem" <jbclem1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Everytime I try to play an .avi file (movie), WMP 9 gives me the criptic error message "Windows Media Player has
encountered an unknown error". So far I haven't had any luck figuring this out, the help files show nothing that I can
see.

Can someone give me some ideas or suggestions for this problem.

Run GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ on the AVI file, and see if
it can diagnose which audio and video codecs are required for playback

You're probably just missing a decoder - if installing the required
decoder (often DivX : http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/) I'd
check that your graphics card and sound card driver software is up to
date and nto causing playback errors.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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