For the love of pancakes, can someone please help me with my Eclipse Media Player?

I'm having no problems with it when it comes to music.
But videos? Absolute nightmare.
The thing comes with video converter software that doesn't work and an poorly translated, english-mishmash html manual that makes no sense and keeps referring to a CD that never came with the player (I'm on a netbook, so I can't use it anyway!) Talk about outsourcing.

The thing supposedly only plays .avi format, and I've tried playing downloaded vids of that file type. No dice. Ironically, all the sample videos play fine. The converter software just says "error" when I try to convert a video, and only the audio plays-- the little sample screen stays black.

I'm going crazy, here.

Anyone have any help to offer?

?2010-09-19T19:42:34Z

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I would give you Two suggestions :

1 Re-install your Eclipse Media Player (maybe helpful ,i not sure)
2 Download Total Video Converter (It's rock ,trusted by people )
I never have problems as this question :) I use Total Video Converter ! Everytime it goes well .
you can see it here http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/index.htm

?2010-09-20T07:05:38Z

"only the audio plays-- the little sample screen stays black."?
that's may because the bug of the converter
you can contact the company for some advices

if you are looking for another video converter
i suggest Free HD Video Converter Factory
here is the link:
http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/free-hd-video-converter/
you can try it

some others:
xilisoft
wondershare
imtoo
any video converter

?2010-09-20T07:26:52Z

If you cannot find a useful converter, I recommend you Altysoft Video converter

http://www.altysoft.com/

It supports so many devices and video formats, such as: iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Xbox, Nokia, avi, wmv, 3gp, mov, flv and more into avi, mov, asf, wmv, mp4, 3gp and others.

Altysoft Video Converter is a very easy and powerful DVD ripping software, which can convert DVD to various formats.

Altysoft Video Converter can help copy whole DVD to your hard diver, then you can burn them to blank DVD using burning software.

Beside above-mentioned functions, it so easy to download YouTube videos from YouTube website, just specify the URL for the video you want to download.