avi has no video

You either have a file with the wrong extension on it, or a corrupt file.

By wrong extension, someone posted it as an AVI while it may actually be an mpeg or quicktime file.

If the audio plays as an AVI, but not the video, then the video information is likely corrupt.

Either way, your best option is to download from a different peer site.

Chas

You may not have an appropriate decompressor. Many capture cards use a proprietary hardware compression method and without the card in the machine, you will not be able to view the video, although you will normally hear the soundtrack as this is usually PCM. I use the FAST AV2000 card, and AVI's captured using this card will only play back on a machine with the same card fitted. The trick is to use software recompression to reprofile the AVI using one of the standard CODEC's that will allow Windows Media Player or such-like to play the video on any other PC. I'm willing to bet that the AVI you have downloaded has some proprietary compression format. AVI is NOT, as is often assumed, a definitive standard. Rather it is a method of storing audio visual material in such a way that the audio and the video are stored in the same file (hence AVI - Audio Video Interleave). There is no set standard for avi files. We (and FAST) use 768x576 full frame PAL 50f/s at 32 bit colour depth and 44.1kHz16bit stereo PCM. Miro use a different format, and Microsoft Video For Windows is different again. It is possible to download certain decompressors from windowsmedia.com, but for hardware compressed formats like Dazzle or FAST, unless the avi has been recompressed into a 'common' format, it will be useless without the hardware.

Try divX to play it!

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