[==SpuD==]

Some of my old videos i found on a harddrive are .avi file type, but when coming to play them on vista i get sound but no video

Why is this??

SpuD

[keithr128]

I'm can't really explain why that is happening, the only suggestion I can make is if you are using Windows Media Player
to try and play those types of file that you can use VLC Media Player.
I use it to play .avi files without any problems at all.

[==SpuD==]

Thanks, am downloading i now!

Someone said to me thoe that its something to do with codecs??

What ere they and is there one i need to download?

SpuD

Edit: Yeah it works fine with vlc, Thanks for that!

[keithr128]

Hi Spud,
Glad to hear that VLC worked for you.
Here is some info on what a codec is.
Probably the most popular codec pack is the K-Lite Codec Pack, downloading it will allow you to play many more types of files with Windows Media Player.
I prefer VLC because it has all of those codecs built in instead of running two different programs to play one file though.

[==SpuD==]

okay, Thanks for your help

SpuD