Media player not playing AVI files

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Download the WM 9 Series encoder from windows media site,then open encoder,
select,convert,convert or run the file thru encoder.

"Daj" wrote:

> HI
> I have some avi files that ran in media player and real player with no problems. I have updated to SP2
> and now they play sporaticly. The picture comes on with the sound then quits then it starts up again
> for a few seconds and repeats the same sequence all over a 9 min clip never really finishes. Where it
> shows on the screen that the player is playing it displays "Playing - Clip capture My Movie - playlist
> playlst10" in that order and then repeats all over again the same sequence. Any idea what could be
> wrong? I sure would appreciate any help I can get.
> Thanks, Daj
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