donewell, Ok...how about you download VideoInspector. Launch it, and then drop the AVI file in it to find out what codecs you're missing.
Well that don't work. first i had to download 7-zip to open it then spent 1/2 hour trying to find out where it was put, then put in my mpeg and it gave me some information but did not show if codec was or wasn't installed and when i pushed play it opened media 11 and crashed. sorry i give up. thanks anyway