cannot see video-error message

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im trying to play a video from a cd. im running it on
windows media and its definitly a windows media file with
an .avi extention. i can only hear the sound but
not "see" the video. in the small status bar on the
bottom left corner i see a message in small green letter
for a few seconds "error downloading codec"

PLEASE HELP ME
THANKS, TOM

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

Codecs! An uncompressed AVI file takes up about 12gb for every hour of
'footage'. Therefore almost all AVI files found on the web are compressed!
To play a compressed file, you need the correct codec.

To find out which codec your avi files are compressed with, download and
install G-Spot..from
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Then you'll know which codecs to download and install.... probably DiVX
and/or XVid.
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com
"TOM" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7ee201c43197$bd252f50$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> im trying to play a video from a cd. im running it on
> windows media and its definitly a windows media file with
> an .avi extention. i can only hear the sound but
> not "see" the video. in the small status bar on the
> bottom left corner i see a message in small green letter
> for a few seconds "error downloading codec"
>
> PLEASE HELP ME
> THANKS, TOM