Browser won't open AVI on Vista but will on XP

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Joe

At first I thought this might be best posted to the IE7 group - however; it
seems to only affect machines with Vista o/s.

My wife filmed a short movie clip of a horse she is selling and I u/l to a
web site. The URL is below. The potential buyers are using XP and are able
to see the video fine - however; the Vista computers at my work and 2 boxes
at home say they cannot display the page - no matter how I chang the
secuirty settings - any ideas?

I have additional video software such as Nero Showtime on a couple of the
machines as well as just the O/S should play an .AVI file.

The 8 mb AVI file is located at:
http://www.northwestservices.biz/S4010419.AVI
 
The link you supplied downloads the file to the computer where it opens in
Windows Media Player. If the computer does not have the requisite CODEC
installed, you will not be able to view the video. You can install the Divx
codec's to view the video.

I would not expect that you really want your perspective buyers to have to
go through this hassle. Does not the web site you have your video posted to
allow viewing the video through the web browser, without installing any
additional software?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
No - I am admin here as well as my home network. Only other common thing is
Onecare. But I tried disabling the firewall and virus checker and I still
get:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

What you can try:
Diagnose Connection Problems

More information
 
Windows out of the box plays .AVI files.


Richard Urban said:
The link you supplied downloads the file to the computer where it opens in
Windows Media Player. If the computer does not have the requisite CODEC
installed, you will not be able to view the video. You can install the
Divx codec's to view the video.

I would not expect that you really want your perspective buyers to have to
go through this hassle. Does not the web site you have your video posted
to allow viewing the video through the web browser, without installing any
additional software?

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
Click to expand...
 
Just a thought was all. All .avi files are NOT equal. Divx produces an .avi
file but will not play in media player without the CODECS.

It all depends on what you used to encode the files. If it is a straight
..avi file off of a video camera, yes. If the video has been edited and
recompiled - maybe not. If it's a video from a cell phone - maybe not. If
you used a computer that had Divx on it when you worked with the file you
may need Divx on the viewing computer also.

Unfortunately, I do not presently have a plain vanilla Windows XP computer
laying around. Every one of mine are pack up the kazoo with CODECS and
therefore play anything.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
All of my Vista computers have multiple extra CODECS installed also.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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