Fuckin' AVI Files

[Zeta]

So anyways, two months ago, my motherboard got deep fried, along with my DVD player, thanks to the absurd amount of torrential storms that continue to pelt North Carolina. It's like the fucking rainy season of Africa here. There's not been a single day without a rain storm that lasts at least an hour. I'm thinking of building an ark.

But I digress. I had to get a new motherboard and re-install everything. I struggled at first, because that shitty ass glitchy spyware version of Windows Media Player was installed as well, but I dug up the old version from my oldsys files.

Here's the problem, it no longer plays AVI files. I have no idea why the fuck not. It says it searches for the codec, but it never finds it. At first I had thought that it was because Microsoft no longer has online support for software that - ya know - actually works.

Unfortunately, the new, almost virus-like version of WMP can't find the right codecs either.

So how the hell am I supposed to play AVI files?

Someone posted a link here to Windows Media Player Classic - something they swore by. But it didn't work at all on my PC. It failed to recognize it as an application, even.

Any suggestions? Or at least some way of getting the codec back into my old version of WMP?

[Delphine]

<a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html">VLC plays .avi files</a>, along with a whole shit of other stuff. I refuse to use WMP so I have no idea how to fix your problem, but if you can't find a way VLC is a good alternative. Or, you know, a better choice overall.

[-wyvern]

VLC is a pretty damn decent player. Thanks, whoever reccomended it to me in the first place.

[Dache]

That'd be me.

Download G-Spot and have it analyse the file. It'll tell you what codec it is. Then download that codec.

[Kishi]

One of our favorite pastimes in Florida is to stand on the east coast and watch as the hurricanes head right toward us, then swing northward and nail North Carolina at the last second. Never fails.

[Bo]

There are a lot of files around named .avi that aren't necessarily the normal Audio/ Video Interleave codec.

[Popcorn]

When I was in Colorado I remember there being fucking kickass thunderstorms every other day.

Man, I love that state.

[Squirrelknight]

I live in southern California. I can't remember the last time it rained a decent amount. I think it was back in 1996, when we had El Nino or something. After that, every "rainstorm" is some pussy shower that only drizzles for about twenty minutes and then stops. I miss the rain.

[Light Speed]

We rarely ever get any rain here in Northern Utah, but we got like 8 feet of snow in a few days this december. Good times.

[Segaholic2]

Texas has been having a really weird year. The last week was rainy as heck (flash flood watches all week for Austin and the surrounding areas), and we had just as much rain a couple weeks before that. We almost never get this much rain so late in the year. Really weird. I can't wait for it to stop.

[Green Gibbon!]

We've had more rain this year and even in the past few months than we've had since 1997 or something. And in Louisiana, you get flooding from scattered showers let alone torrential rain. The field behind our house has shifted back and forth between that and a small lake over the past few months.

[Neon Chaos]

You know, it's been raining a lot more this summer here in Oklahoma too. Weird.

Yeah, I can't help you with the Windows Media Player problem, but I do have a suggestion. Maybe the AVI files you are trying to view require the <a href="http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX511.exe">DivX codec</a>. WMP won't download that from it's server.

I'm not sure if that would help. I myself use a Mac and my main media player is MPlayer OSX.

[WhoopA]

I've gravitated to Media Player Classic. Failing that, I like to Start > Run > mplayer2.exe - Windows Media Player before the pudge

[Spazz]

One of our favorite pastimes in Florida is to stand on the east coast and watch as the hurricanes head right toward us, then swing northward and nail North Carolina at the last second. Never fails.

One of our favorite things to do when a hurricane hits is take out the canoes and paddle around in the streets.

When I was in Colorado I remember there being fucking kickass thunderstorms every other day.

Man, I love that state.

I remember that when I was in Colorado, the weather was so bad once that we got trapped in a pizza/italian resturant. Man, that <i>is</i> an awesome state. It was also in in that state where I came the closest I've ever been to meeting someone I knew from the internet.

We've had more rain this year and even in the past few months than we've had since 1997 or something. And in Louisiana, you get flooding from scattered showers let alone torrential rain. The field behind our house has shifted back and forth between that and a small lake over the past few months.

I remember a few years back in January of either '99 or '00 it would rain so heavily <i>every</i> Monday that sometimes I wouldn't be able to get to school because of flooded streets. Man, I love rain.

[Parn]

Go here and download the full version of the K-Lite Codec Pack. It contains just about every video codec known to mankind.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_L ... c_Pack.htm

Wouldn't hurt to pick up Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative either, also listed on the same site.

[Green Gibbon!]

I only found this out today, but Acadia Parish has been declared a national disaster area as of mid-June due to so much flood damage.

I win!

[Spazz]

Heh, I doubt that anyone knows what a parish is.

[Zeta]

I AM SERIOUSLY starting to get pissed off.

I tried VLC, but I only got sound. No fucking images. I look all around for some settings to change, but there really aren't any, and I only got a single still image right when I closed the damn thing.

I'm trying to download the lists of codecs that Parn posted, but everytime I finish getting them it tells me that the file is corrupted.

Damnit! I have tons of porn and anime I may never see again for a reason I can't barely begin to fathom.

Curse you, Microsoft, and your fucking compatibility issues. Curse you, nature, for striking down my computer in it's prime. CURSE YOUUU!

[Bo]

"Parishes" are what LA calls "counties", right? Alaska calls 'em "boroughs". One of the New England states has a weird name for them, too.

[Zeta]

I finally downloaded the full version of the K-Lite Codec pack, which included Media Player Classic.

Unfortunately, every time I tried to open an AVI file, it told me I was performing an illegal operation.

GRRAAAH!

[BlazeHedgehog]

When I was in Colorado I remember there being fucking kickass thunderstorms every other day.

Man, I love that state.

Which is odd. Last year we were still in our "7 year drought". It just ended this year. You should see it. It's rained for a week straight and as I type this, I can hear thunder rumbling in the distance. Got an inch of hail on monday.

Man, I hate WMP9. What the hell kind of uninstall routine is a System Restore Point? "Uh, yeah. If you wanna get rid of WMP9... well... just make sure you don't install anything at all after you install WMP9, because... when you 'uninstall' it, that all vanishes." Even worse, I installed WMP9 for something and tried to uninstall it (right away within 5 minutes of installing) and apparently the Restore Point it created was corrupt because it refused to restore back to it. Way to circumvent a monopolizing loophole, Microsoft.

Took me forever to get Windows to ignore WMP9 and use Media Player Classic.

[Green Gibbon!]

I don't think it rained either time I was in Colorado, and I was there for around 10 days both times. It snowed alot, though, which was mind-blowing to me. In the upper elevations, the stuff was packed as high as the van.

I actually witnessed a snow thunder storm while at Pikes Peak. I was in the observatory/café/souvenir shop at the top and it started snowing, and it was amazing because it was the thickest, dryest, strongest snow I'd ever seen. It was like getting pelted with styrofoam pebbles. It was lightning as well, and of course they strictly warned us ignorant tourists not to venture outside the building, but seeing this kind of snow storm is a rare opportunity for a Southerner, so I figured I'd just make a quick run around the place. Everytime lightning struck, my hair would stand on-end from the static and you could actually hear the strike itself. There was no thunder at all from up close.

I guess that was probably extremely careless of me.

[Spazz]

Hey, if anyone happens to see an abondoned teddy bear while they're on Pikes Peak, lemme know. My sister lost hers, heheh. ^_^;

[Segaholic2]

I love how everybody is ignoring Zeta's problem to partake in the off-topic conversation.

[Spazz]

I really don't see what everyone's problem is with Windows Media Player. I have the latest version and the DivX codec installed and I never have any problems. I don't know what ya'll are talking about with Media Player having spyware. I don't have any problems like that. Is it possible that you have something else installed that may be causing the problem? If so, have you tried <a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/">Spybot</a>?
Btw, Winamp and DivX player play all types of video files (including AVI of course) if you want to try those.