No video playing .avi on Win Media Player 11 (in Vista)

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

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
>

Thank you, Rich. I will check it out.

"Rich" wrote:

> 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
> >