Watching downloaded .avi

[SprocketTech]

How come when I try to watch an .avi movie I downloaded with the Windows Media Player 7 it tells me that the format of the movie is unsupported???

[Beemers]

I can't help you with your problem exactly but I had problems with Media 7. It took over my audio and video extensions entirely and it played back all my sound events rather slow. It joined 2 sound events rather slopily. I have this computer all custom sound evented with my echoeing voice. Media 6.4 did a good job of this after making it auto close after manually playing a .wav file. Registry hack was needed to make it behave like sound32.exe was playing the .wav.
6.4 is still available if you need to roll back.

[This message has been edited by Beemers (edited 08-23-2000).]

[Donkey]

I expect the download was suspect and didn't get the file properly for one reason or another. Try downloading it again.

[silkman]

Some .avi file require an extra plugin for window media player. Hmm now if I can remember the site where you can download that plugin that would be great dont' you think. Hehehe. Anyways try www.divx.com. (http://www.divx.com.)

[Solidus]

I believe what you are talking about is a new type a video file compression called DivX. Here is a link to download the proper codec to view it. http://divx.ctw.cc/index_main.html