I've a movie in Avi format when i open it plays just for 16 seconds with "codec error: use windows media player Aborting video redirecting to microsoft codec download page" on the screen. That redirects me to this webpage http://freaktorrents.info/play/?embedded=false. This site asks to download a player but when i click on it the page won't open

Sounds funny anyway i know when i want to watch a movie thats all i want to do. dont want to be download any software or anything... anyway please download vlc player ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ) this will play almost anything u throw at it...it just works period. it sounds like a virus but i would need some more info make sure ur antivirus software is up to date and please run windows update and also make sure all third party applications are up to date.

This is clearly due to the codec issue for Windows Media Player not playing AVI files. Windows Media Player is available to support all the codecs contained in AVI files, but some new codecs in AVI invented in later years, such as Xvid, DivX, DX50, MP4V, and MPEG-4 cannot be supported by Windows Media Player since it has not been updated.

Solution: Install the missing codecs. In such a case, what you need to do is to download the required codecs, such as Xvid. After downloading, you can just restart your computer and Windows Media Player, then WMP can play AVI smoothly. Learn more about how to update Windows Midea Player Codecs. Or you can try some other players that can open AVI files such as Leawo Blu-ray Player and 5K player.