Invalid media player files PLEASE HELP

[gdude324]

I got some movies of BitTorrent, and when i play them in any media player they wont work even though the formats are suppoted any one have any ideas? i checked the MS websites, downloaded codeds, nothings working! any help would be grately appreciated.

 

[jay8990]

try playing on VLC it has all codecs built in.
what kind of file is it?

 

[gdude324]

.avi

 

[gdude324]

whats VLC?

 

[mr.monger]

uhhh media player doesnt support avi. at least mine doesnt. just get winamp or divx. and dont double post. just use the edit button

 

[jay8990]

video LAN VLC player. its a medi aplayer thats meant to play anything pretty much!
try renaming them
make sure the file extension right - no spaces in it or something

 

[per]

They also may be corrupted files. That is not unusual on a large d/l.