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Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on December 16, 2006 at 07:50:22

In Reply to: Is there anything I can determine about a downloaded posted by Duilawyer on December 15, 2006 at 15:47:11:

Unless you have an .avi software/player on your computer, you won't be able to play it. Some DVD players will play DIVX files, but you have to get them onto a DVD or CD.

There are numerous places on the web that you can get a free DIVX player. Once downloaded, you can watch .avi files. I believe WMV has .avi capability and maybe some DIVX capability, but I don't know if all types of the format are playable going this route.

You can probably find free converters for .avi to PAL or .avi to NTSC on the web. I converted about 8 Apple Quick Time files to the .avi format with a free converter on the web. I also have a not-free video editing program that records in .avi or MPEG1/2 and can make the final format PAL or NTSC specific (besides a number of other video formats).

I don't know if there was ever any region coding capability set for .avi (I doubt it), but there are ways around region coding if that's a problem.

You might want to Google ".avi to PAL" and "DIVX player" to see what you get. Numerous software items are free or are free on a trial basis.

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