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Old 02-18-2008, 10:58 AM
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Default Re: how many avi files types?

Stefano wrote:

> I'd like to know if there are different types of AVI file.
> I have many of them and I see that some of them could be played with
> xine or real play or whatelse, some of them have very poor quality and
> the rest are impossible to play, for example Avidemux can only open
> half of them whereas xine can play others....it seems that each file
> it's different from anyone else.
> I'm really confused, are there different types of compression or what?
> Thanks,
>
> Stefano


I feel your pain. If you need to, try getting mplayer also. It helps
having more than one player, so long as you can keep mozilla from
auto-opening one with the same player every time
For example, I have Xine and MPlayer for videos. Sometimes mplayer works,
sometimes not, etc.

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