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Today’s Challenge: Getting AVIs to play on Windows Media Player

February 16, 2009 By Al Martine

Thanks to President’s Day, I have a little more time to play around on the Home Theatre PC (HTPC).  I’d love to just play on it for hours and hours, but I have a few other projects happening so I have to limit my quality time.

Today’s project – getting the movies in AVI format that I backed up for the nice people in Australia to play on Windows Media Player (WMP).  As of now, I can hear the audio, but can’t see the video.  The World Wide Internet suggests this is a ‘codec’ problem. 

Worst case I just use VLC Player, which works perfectly but I like Windows Media Center and using the remote. 

To Be Continued …

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Media Center - Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Technology, Windows Media Player

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