Cannot play a particular .avi video in any player

[Bracken]

Hey Everyone!
I have a weird problem... There is a video file which wont play. I play .avi video on Media Player Classic. But this video doesn't play in any player. Now When i open this file in media player classic, it tells me inder is corrupt or damaged and asks me if i want to repair this error. When i click on yes then it repairs and stucks on 9%. Then media player classic hangs... I have to force quit it! Please help guys!

[JonathanD]

Hey there!
Try VLC player. Its playes all the Damn audio video files that exists on this planet.

About VLC Player :

VLC media player is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for BeOS, Syllable, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MorphOS, Solaris and Zaurus, and is widely used with over 100 million downloads for version 0.8.6.

VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries; on the Windows platform, this greatly reduces the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.

Formats Supported :

Readable formats

VLC can read several formats, depending on the operating system VLC is running on.

Input
UDP/RTP unicast or multicast, HTTP, FTP, MMS, RTSP, RTMP, DVDs, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB, Video acquisition (via V4l and DirectShow), RSS/Atom Feeds, and from files stored on your computer.
Container formats
3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid/.midi), QuickTime, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB.
Video formats
Cinepak, Dirac, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, Sorenson (thus enabling direct playback of the modified Sorenson H.263 encoded videos downloaded from YouTube), Theora, VC-1, VP5, VP6, WMV.
Subtitles
DVD, SVCD, DVB, OGM, SubStation Alpha, SubRip, Advanced SubStation Alpha, MPEG-4 Timed Text, Text file, Vobsub, MPL2, Teletext.
Audio formats
AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR,[15] DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MACE, MP3, PLS (file format), QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio, Speex, Screamtracker 3/S3M, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack, WMA.

[Bracken]

Hey John!
But its just a waste of time man! i tried that too... But no joy for me! When media player classic failed the first next player i tried was VLC player.. But that didn't help me either! If this file is damaged can i repair it anyways?? Help guys!

[Glenny]

Heyo!
Bracken as you told media player classic tried repairing it but couldn't repair it. So if media player classic couldn't repair it i suggest forget the video and try downloading again... Its a waste of time. In the mean time you could download that all over again...!!
All the best!