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WMP can't play avi
Right, this is doing my nut in.
Some background:
I'm on Win7 HomePrem 64bit.
I'm fearing that I'm going to have to end up doing a clean install to fix this, but I REALLY don't want to do it due to the amount of tweaking I've had to do to get it stable and working (mostly) as I want it.
I have a satellite card installed that I access through WMC which is a 64bit app, so I have installed FFDShow 64 (Actually, the Klite 64 bit codec pack). The amount of messing about I had to do to get it working and to get WMC to play HD satellite feeds & the EPG was unreal.
So, as the WMC codecs were 64bit, I had to change the default WMP to the 64bit version, which again is a right PITA, not helped by the 32 and 64 bit versions having the same process name. Why on earth does 64 bit win7 default to 32bit WMP? Lord only knows. For the most part it all works well, although sometimes the FFDshow/Matroska splitter fails to load but I can live with that if needs be.
One of the main reasons I use FFDSHow is because it can output surround sound - this is really key for me.
The problem itself:
I can't play .avi files through WMP64 or WMC. I therefore download the Divx codec... No dice. Uninstalled & downloaded codec & player. Again, no dice, although I can play .avi files in the Divx Player.
Somewhere I need to tick/untick a box, but blowed if I know where!
Do any of you have any suggestions as to where I should start?