Irfanview looks into the header of an Avi and in your case seems not to recognize any codec that is build in to the header. There can be several sorts of codecs enclosed in an Avi-file. It's an Audio Video Interleave File which means it's only a container-file. This is very frustrating.Īvi seems to be an extension for a moviefile, but really it isn't. Windows massive, confusing and intimidating registry) maybe there's some kind of pointer that is just telling Irfanview to use the wrong codec. So, obviously Irfanview had a working codec for this somewhere, but somewhere (e.g. avi movies just fine, so obviously there's a codec forthis in my computer somewhere.įurther frustrating is that I can solve the problem for Irfanview by changing the extension from. Then tried with no change.Īlso, Windows Media Player still plays these. I tried which also gave me lots of options I had no clue about.
Other codecs caused the movie to run about 100x, so the movie took a fraction of a second.
avi file runs as only one single frame and freezes with that. Started downloading free codec packs and installing them. So, I checked the Irfanview FAQ and the forum. Especially frustrating because it was working fine a week ago, and I've no idea what happened to make it stop working. Cannot find vids:mjpg decompressor suddenly popping up when I viewed a. From there you could have downloaded the K-lite codec pack.I have the same problem. Then I guess you didn't try my tip: in my earlier message on this topic.