Can't use any AVI files with any software

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  1. essaniael

    essaniael Member

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    No matter from whence I download, my Windows XP cannot use AVI files. I have tried Winavi, Cinema Craft encoder, DVD Santa, Cucusoft AVI to DVD, Power Video Converter, you name it. The AVI's also do not play in any of my players, eg. Realplayer, PowerDVD. Each time I try to access the AVI's the software simply crashes with an error message telling me it cannot use the file. Windows also crashes when I try to view the thumbnail icon of the AVI file in Windows Explorer! How bad is that?

    However, I am able to read the AVI's into Microsoft Movie Maker. Trouble is it then takes 300 minutes to convert it to another AVI format which is usable in Windows XP! Movie Maker creates a new 15Gb AVI file from the original 800MB AVI file!! I don't even know if I will be able to make a DVD from such a huge file.

    I never used to have this problem with AVI files; it started happening since I have been using DVD editing software such as DVDLab Pro, Cinema Craft Encoder, etc., though that may be just a coincidence.

    Does anyone have a clue what is going on?
     
    essaniael, Nov 25, 2006
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  2. rdmercer1

    rdmercer1 Active member

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    have you tryed uninstalling the programs and see if those programs are the problems? also power dvd should not read a avi file any way, if you are trying to convert your avi file to make a movie, you are wanting to make a dvd right? vso convertxtodvd will work for you. also, you might try doing a system restore to the day before your system started messing up, just go to the day before you started haveing problems, and da a restore and that might solve your problems, good luck happy burning have a nice day
     
    rdmercer1, Nov 26, 2006
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  3. MysticE

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    When you have too many programs installed, your chances for conflicts increase exponentially. Even uninstalling some will still leave multiple codec/filter residue on your rig.
     
    MysticE, Nov 26, 2006
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    I'm sure that if that's a codec problem, once you run DirectShow managerm [ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multim...-Video-Codecs/DirectShow-Filter-Manager.shtml ], under 'DirectShow filters' you'll see lot of DivX decoder filters (and, maybe, plenty of XviD decoder filters), which conflict.

    You could try to
    1) uninstall DivX and XviD
    2) run DirectShow manager and remove every DivX and Xvid ilters you have by selecting it and presssing [Remove selected Filter]
    3) reinstall DivX and XviD

    If you remove all filters which conflict with DivX and XviD you should manage to view your AVI files (unless you have other conflicts).

    You could try. But careful, when removing filters. Avoid uninstalling Windows' filters (that's why I'm talking about codec, first).

     
    aldaco12, Nov 28, 2006
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    Adding to what aldaco12 has said, when multiple codec/filters are installed Windows does not always use the best one, or the one you prefer. A program like MMcomp View can also be used to disable/re-enable them (for those not comfortable with actually deleteing them).

    http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mmcomp.html
     
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