My indows media player can't, for the first time

try to play it on VLC player

> these files play fine on Windows Media Player

Then, continue to use Windows Media Player.

Or, tell us what alternative program that you use that gives "sound-and-no-picture" or "picture-and-no-sound".
What version of that program?
Windows XP? Vista? 7?
Any more "possibly-relevant" details ?

Hi,
The video file coming from your celfone is in .3gp format, and if the player does not support such file. i recommend you need to convert the video first to .avi

Hi,

Click on the link below and download VLC media player >>>>>>>




http://www.videolan.org/vlc/




Try load the AVI in that. If it still won't play then you have wasted your time downloading a fake file.
A good idea is to read any comments left on the torrent site you use before you download any files.


Regards.

I suggest you download and install VLC Media player instead of using windows media player. VLC is capable of playing all sort of media format.
Download VLC Media Player on the link provided.
http://www.videolan.org/

Hi,
To play the avi files. you can try to options.

1. You can download a different media player which is VLC media player. It plays almost all kinds of video format.

2. Download K-lite codec and run it and you should be able to play .avi files in media player.

Hope it helps :-)

i would suggest either getting windows xp or 7, vista has alot of bugs

Hi :

I would download virtualdub (free), install a divx convertor (free to some level), and input your original file in virtualdub (file-open file), check the video tab from VDUB, click compression, select divx, and save the file as an .avi file on harddisk of yr computer. If finished, check this avi file with a media player (winamp or so), see if it plays correctly, then transfer the file to your Archos. This will work.

I believe, when you converted, a stray codec was used for audio)

Gerard

Hi Hardik,

Can you please open My Computer, which should list yrou drives. Click on Tools>Folder Option>File Type and scroll down till you see .avi.

Click on it, and it will show you software assigned to play .avi files. If it is not Media Player, click on Change, pick Media Player out of the list, then click on Ok and close those windows.
Next, click on this link, and then click on Download XP Codec Pack.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

Save it to your deskop, or some place your can find it. Click on it and follow the prompts to install it.
If all that fails, may I suggest you download VLC, which seems to play any video file, here.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Click on Windows, pick a mirror, download VLC, save it somewhere you can find it, and just click on it to install.
Good luck!