Why doesn't my Win Media Player play avi files? (1 Viewer)

[Christopher Chung]

I tried downloading some video files over the net, and they were in avi format, yet the newest version of Windows Media Player won't allow be to play it. I get a message like: "Unable to compress file"

Has this happened to anybody else?

 

[Jeff Kleist]

They're probably compressed with a codec(a program that allows you to watch/view a specific kind of audio or video) you don't have on your machine. Do a search on the net for DiVX, I bet they're compressed with that

 

[Christopher Chung]

Damn sweet!!! Thanks for the help, it worked instantly!!!

 

[AndyVX]

Yea, mostly all avi files nowadays are encoded with DiVX. Glad to see that you were able to get it working.

 

[Joe_C]

Yeah, I had the same problem a little while ago. Downloading the newest DiVX codecs fixed it immediately.