Another question re: playing .avi on Windows Media Player

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I don't know what version of WMP I'm using (don't know how to find that out)
but it came with Vista Home Basic. I get only sound not video when I try to
download an .avi file from the internet.

1) One person mentioned going to Tools-Options-Performance and the moving
'Video Acceleration' to the middle. I couldn't find Tools-Options on WMP but
did find a Performance tab but it did not have anything where I could move
'Video Acceleration to the middle'. Where is this feature on what, I guess,
is the newer WMP on Vista?

CODEC
2) http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Vista...ge/1159994557/1
I would like to just make an adjustment in WMP rather than download a codec
but if I must, does this sound like it could fix my problem? I didn't like
the last comment, "Registry Improvements - UNINSTALL OLD VERSION". I don't
want it to do anything strange in the registry. Will it work for me?

Sorry for a long post but I wanted to cover all bases.
Thank you for your help,

Studebaker
 
Media Player on Vista is version 11. Not sure about the no video problem,
but open Media Player and click the Now Playing drop down menu and then
click More Options to see that dialog box. You can also simply press the ALT
key to see the old toolbar menu with File, Edit, Tools, etc.
 
Nearly all programs have an About item on the Help menu to tell you the
version.

One possible cause is that you don't have the video codec needed. AVI files
can have different formats inside them. You have to wonder about people that
make files that Windows can't play standard - they choose to do this.
 
So then this guy called said:
Nearly all programs have an About item on the Help menu to tell you the
version.

One possible cause is that you don't have the video codec needed. AVI
files can have different formats inside them. You have to wonder about
people that make files that Windows can't play standard - they choose to
do this.
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WMP won't play avi's (an MS format) encoded with mpeg2 or mpeg4 out of the
box. That's a bit slack IMHO. It only seems to handle mpeg1 without adding
codecs (which isn't a big deal to add) but you can hardly blame the people
encoding the avi's if they are using mpeg4/xvid...
 
Ultimate certainly has MPEG-2.
Tim Fairchild said:
WMP won't play avi's (an MS format) encoded with mpeg2 or mpeg4 out of the
box. That's a bit slack IMHO. It only seems to handle mpeg1 without adding
codecs (which isn't a big deal to add) but you can hardly blame the people
encoding the avi's if they are using mpeg4/xvid...

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Tim Fairchild - Queensland Australia
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