AVI files won't play on wmp

Hi,

I used to import videos from my digital camera using Picasa and had no
problem but Picasa doesn't import them anymore.All my video files are
imported and stored
in windows media player but when try to play there's only an AVI icon,it
says'codec acquired' but won't play.There is sound though...Can someone
PLEASE help me as i have so many videos in my camera waiting!Could it also be
the fact that i still have Picasa installed?

Thanks,
marlou

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:58:10 -0800, marlou
<marlou@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I used to import videos from my digital camera using Picasa and had no
>problem but Picasa doesn't import them anymore.All my video files are
>imported and stored
>in windows media player but when try to play there's only an AVI icon,it
>says'codec acquired' but won't play.There is sound though...Can someone
>PLEASE help me as i have so many videos in my camera waiting!Could it also be
>the fact that i still have Picasa installed?

For once, it's not hugely likely that DivX codec will fix this up :
http://www.divx.com/en/products/software/windows/divx

Digital cameras often use M-JPEG rather than an MPEG4 encoder (which
divx is one of a variety or zoo of !)

So I'd have a look at the file in GSpot to see what video and/or audio
codec it lists : http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Post the information GSpot lists about the codecs, and we can probably
suggest a way to fix it reasonably reliably.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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