.avi Player?

[fourx]

I am occasionly emailed or given on USB devices small video files of music performances involving my work as a music teacher- these files, typicaly part of a much larger complete film clip are most often in mpeg format, and I use a small, free program called Superdecoder to view them. Increasingly I am now being sent files in .avi format, and sometimes rar. Neither Superdecoder or WM Player can handle these files, and Video Lan won't work either. Does anyone know of a program ( free) that will work?

[MountainDon]

Are you on Windows or Mac? Windows Media Player plays avi's for me.   :-?  All the other players I have are part of purchased video editors. Maybe your files are just upside down?  :-/

[fourx]

  Of course they're upside down, Don- but the player I'm using is upside down as well, so they should be usable...I'm on Windows XP.

[Daddymem]

VLC media player will cure what ails ya.  Just about any OS.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Go for the portable version if you want to run it on a secured work computer.
http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable

The rar files are archives you need winrar then the vlc should play the extracted file.
http://www.rarlab.com/
May run into par files with rars too.  They are error correction (auto repairing!)for split rars.  Check out quick par for those
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
sfv is another error checker too. try quick sfv
http://www.quicksfv.org/

You may need an odd codec, check with Avicodec
http://avicodec.duby.info/

If those tips don't work, try Any Video converter to change to a format you can play
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Video_and_Animation_Tools/Any_Video_Converter.html

[fourx]

Great info, Daddymem, thanks- much appreciated

[Daddymem]

np
Forgot one.  ffdshow.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

Run configuration and look under misc. you can flip the video.  This won't play the video, just mess with your codecs that are used by whatever player you choose.  Remember to flip it back after.

[glenn-k]

I don't know if the above cover FLV - flash video but this little player does.

http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html

[fourx]

I'm getting them all..Thanks, folks.

[glenn-k]

Our pleasure, Pete.

That Daddymem is hard for me to keep up with -- he knows a lot of cool stuff.

[Daddymem]

GOTD has a free flv converter today and today only.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/flv-to-video-converter/

[glenn-k]

Cool, Daddymem.  Thanks.  I'm on it like flies on stink.