Videos belonging to games from Blizzard contain DivX video, but with a different FourCC, namely "BLZ0". To play such videos you need to use ffdshow for decoding DivX video. The regular DivX decoder won't work (unless you manually change the FourCC). If that doesn't solve the problem, then you should use Media Player Classic or VideoLAN to play the file.

Click the "Open File" button on the top-left of the control NBar and select the .avi file you want, click OK, the player will play automatically.

Use avisubdump.c from the TOOLS subdirectory or read this document about extracting/demultiplexing subtitles embedded in OpenDML AVI files. Have a look at the TOOLS subdirectory for a collection of random scripts and hacks. TOOLS/README contains documentation. Video formats6.1.1. MPEG files6.1.2. AVI files6.1.3. ASF/WMV files6.1.4. QuickTime/MOV files6.1.5. VIVO files6.1.6. FLI files6.1.7. RealMedia (RM) files6.1.8. NuppelVideo files6.1.9. yuv4mpeg files6.1.10. FILM files6.1.11. RoQ files6.1.12.

After the avi is encoded by DivX codec, The logo does not exist in the avi file. If play back the avi file with official DivX player or use FFDSHOW filter, the logo does not show. The program can support most encoding filters based on Microsoft DirectShow, such as XviD or WMV9 and more if you install appropriate video codecs.

Get VLC player. For further codec support, get Combined Community Codec Pack or K-lite Mega Codec Pack. All of these are free. You can get them on google.

Yes, ShowShifter can play any video format that Windows Media Player can play. By default ShowShifter looks in the 'Video' folder on each of your drives in order to list them. This location can be changed using the 'Read Video Files' page, details of which are in Readme.html which comes with ShowShifter. A link to 'Read me' is under the ShowShifter option on the Windows Start menu. If you are using the recompression feature there is a 4gigabyte restriction on the size of the .avi file.

This is a know limitation of PVR. Even if it is not the same chipsets that do the 2 jobs, if this functionnality was enabled, you could have a lot of jerks during AVI playing (and probably on current record too). So it has been disabled and you can "only" read MPEG files or DVD.

NuVJ does only play the audio when using QuickTime .mov files and you need to enable it in the NuVJ Preferences dialog.

Find Ladybug Files with details such as Extension: AVI; Content Type (MIME): video/avi; Open with: LBXPDEMO. In the Application used to perform action Edit box, fill the parameters such as "H:\Program Files\Ladybug Player XP Full\bin\LBXPDEMO.exe" "%1" /c "H:\Program Files\Ladybug Player XP Full\bin\LBXPCONF.ini". Where the first parameter is the LBXPDEMO.

Yes it's possible using the last firmware from ExSport. You just have to activate a new entry in the preference menu, then all subtitles will be scanned to be played, switching from one to next one, using "subtitle" key on remote control.

Yes. MacVCD X is based on Quicktime technology and so it will play any supported Quicktime media. In addition you can install Quicktime components to easily increase the media types that MacVCD X will play. AVI*, DivX*, XviD*, Quicktime Movie (.mov), DV, DVC, DV Pal, Photo VCD, Karaoke VCD, Apple Video, Component video, Sorenson Video 2 & 3, Microsoft OLE & Video 1 And the list goes on. By choosing a Quicktime based movie player your options are limitless.

You can use MacVCD X to play AVI, Divx or xVID from your hard drive, from an external disk/hard drive, or from a CD. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the MacVCD X Read me in the documentation folder that comes with MacVCD X or download the MacVCD X Read me (pdf) now

Yes, there are two ways to playback avi file, using the legacy VFW based AVI functions or media file functions in IVision, VFW based AVI functions can only play uncompressed or certain compression format avi files while media file functions can play almost any modern format avi files.

The video codec that is required to decode and display the video may not be installed on your computer. For example, if you are trying to play a file that was encoded using the DivX video codec and you do not have that codec installed on your computer, you will likely hear the audio portion of the file, but you won't see the video. For information about finding and downloading codecs, see the Using codecs FAQ.

A: Here is a short and simple answer to this question that I get asked a lot in various different ways. I know many that come here would love to get the stuff I have for their own collections as clips and short video captures just don't cut it as well as the entire episode would. But I really don't have time to make tapes for people or to make personal AVI's for people as well. If I did that I would be doing these things for day after day non stop.

Contains an audio switcher. That is useful for playing AVI files that have multiple audio tracks (which are quite rare) in players that don't contain an audio switcher themselves, such as WMP and Media Center.

Many current digital camera vendors (including Fuji and Canon) offer an option to take short .avi clips that can be played later on a PC. Due to [the same] hardware chip they use to encode (compress) the captured movies, you need to install most likely the same codec, called either Motion-JPEG or MJPEG, or MJPG for short. Here are few links where you'll find the different codecs that support the same format you need.

When playing video formats that require a third party component on an Intel Mac, the finder may report that it can't find the component. To correct this, follow these instructions:

No - you need third party software to play most video types. SmartMovie is one example for XviD AVI files and it offers full screen landscape viewing too. For MPG/WMV and many other video files, there's CorePlayer. The only ones that you can play without additional software are MP4, 3GP and RealMedia(RM) files, all of which separate encoders are required. Nokia Video Manager is able to convert to MP4 at no charge. You can also try MediaCoder, another free utility.