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My Windows media player and AVI media player aren't playing the video, only the audio?

The files I'm trying to play are avi files and before you tell me to look at the video option to see if it's on, I already did.

For the AVI player, it's showing the video settings as if it were playing the video normally but of course, it's only giving the audio. On Windows media player, it's only giving the audio and the only video options are for "album art" and other stuff as if it were an audio file instead of a video file. What's up?!? I don't know what the problem is considering all my avi files are doing the same thing and there was nothing wrong with them a few days ago. Help?

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  • 10 years ago
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    This is probably a codec issue. Let me get you some codec links. Also try VLCPlayer (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) as it has a built in codek pack.

    XVID Codecs are commonly ussed codecs, install these and try again.

  • vanwie
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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