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    playing avi files

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by yonster, Apr 23, 2009.

  1. yonster

    yonster Newbie

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    Hi,
    i have a dell inspiron 640m laptop running XP SP3. when i try to play AVI video's all i can get to play is the sound without any picture! even when i'm playing through windows media player, itunes, real player!

    Does anyone know of any software i can use to correct this?

    Thanks
     
    yonster, Apr 23, 2009
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  2. s2odin

    s2odin Merrica!

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    try divx

    thats what i use for avi files
     
    s2odin, Apr 23, 2009
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  3. kendoisonfire

    kendoisonfire Notebook Consultant

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    I use vlc, it plays anything for me.
     
    kendoisonfire, Apr 23, 2009
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  4. adrianu

    adrianu Notebook Geek

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    Yes, kendoisonfire is right, VLC is pretty good. I also suggest you the SMplayer ( http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/), it's a complete, professional front-end for the well-known mplayer. All you have to do is to download, install, set file associations in the program.
     
    adrianu, Apr 23, 2009
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