Playing AVI files in Windows Media Player

Question

I purchased an SMC IP camera and received IPView Pro version 3.00.07. When I try to play a recorded file, I only hear the audio in Windows Media Player. There is no video. Does this version provide the appropriate AVI format for WMP?

Answer 1

You can either install VLC which has native support for AVI files or you can install additional codecs for your system which will enhance WMP's functionality. If you choose to use additional codecs, download them, install the package and then you will be able to play the file in WMP.

Answer 2

According to Microsoft Official Website, Windows Media Player does support playing AVI videos. If your Windows Media Player won't play AVI, two reasons cause the issue:

Reason one: Windows Media Player doesn't support the video codec in AVI file. AVI(Audio Video Interleaved) is a container format designed by Microsoft, used to wrap audio and video streams together. These audio and video streams can be compressed by various codec. During the days AVI format comes into being, WMP supports all video codecs that can be used in AVI file. After that, more and more new codecs, like Xvid, DivX, MPEG-4, are invented and used in AVI file, but WMP doesn't support them.

Reason Two: Your AVI files are corrupt. Play them on other players and devices to check if this is the reason.

To solve "Windows Media Player won't play AVI" issue, you'd better to convert AVI to Windows Media Player compatible WMV, ASF, AVI, MPG etc.

Or play AVI in Windows Media Player is installing some AVI codecs for Windows Media Player.

Here is AVI codecs.