AVI playback software?

[richw]

Can anyone recommend me a downloadable software to view AVI format files.

I've purchased a dash cam which saves in .AVI but my laptop doesn't have anything that supports playback.

thanks

 

[Nym]

1) That is very surprising, since AVI is just a series of images...

2) VLC Media Player.

 

[Darandio]

AVI is a video format.

As suggested above, VLC should play, DIVX should as well.

 

[GB]

Can anyone recommend me a downloadable software to view AVI format files.

I've purchased a dash cam which saves in .AVI but my laptop doesn't have anything that supports playback.

thanks

If your on a Windows machine then the default players should play AVI files. However it sounds like you do not have the correct codecs installed.

Either download VLC as above or download the K-lite codec pack....or preferably both.

 

[asylumxl]

AVI is actually a container format, chances are you probably don't have the correct codec. An AVI could be encoded using anything ranging from MPEG-2 to Xvid.

It's possible to download these online, but as others have suggested it's far easier to just use something like VLC which have the codec support built in.

Edit: GB got there first. Sound advice!

 

[richw]

Thanks guys, downloaded VLC, so can now see my footage.

 

[D365]

VLC is pretty much the go-to these days. Used to be some compatibility issues but it's really gotten good.

 

[SS4]

VLC is pretty much the go-to these days. Used to be some compatibility issues but it's really gotten good.

I find mpv (a fork of Mplayer2) to be better on desktop because of a lighter GUI and better keyboard shortcuts ootb

VLC is excellent on Android though