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Old 03-14-2007
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RE: No video playing .avi on Win Media Player 11 (in Vista)
Sounds like a codec problem

I installed the same codec pack, worked well.

You can Q&A with the codec packager at
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=66826

"Studebaker" wrote:

> I posted this on a general forum but meant to post it under the video forum.
>
> I get only sound not video when I try to play an .avi file that I downloaded
> from the internet on Windows Media Player. I have WMP ver. 11 on Vista Home
> Basic.
>
> 1) One person mentioned going to Tools-Options-Performance and the moving
> 'Video Acceleration' to the middle. I couldn't find a 'Video Acceleration'
> option that I could move to the middle under the Performance tab on WMP.
> Where is this feature on this version of WMP?
>
> CODEC
> 2) http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...e/1159994557/1
> I would like to just make an adjustment in WMP rather than download a codec
> but if I must, does this sound like it could fix my problem? I didn't like
> the last comment, "Registry Improvements - UNINSTALL OLD VERSION". I don't
> want it to do anything strange in the registry. Will it work for me?
>
> Sorry for a long post but I wanted to cover all bases.
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Studebaker
>

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