Help with file extensions

Hi everybody!

I'm new to this site, so if this thread is in the wrong place I apologise. I've been having troubles with a few movie files I've got. I'll start from the beginning.

I found a stack of old VHS movies of when I was a kid in the attic. I went and bought a VHS to DVD converter, and began to convert all of the movies. I now have them all on my computer, but here's the problem. Initially the films played automatically with Windows Movie Player. But, me being me, I had to fiddle about with the auto-play settings, and tried to get the movies to play automatically with Quick time, and the films would not play (however they would before). I tried to revert the settings back to their original state but this done nothing, and now I have all these movies but cant play them!

Can anybody please help with this, I've trawled through countless websites trying to find the solution but to no avail.

Thank you

Hi thanks for your reply Mike,

Currently the file extensions for all the movies are .avi, but every time I try to open it in Windows Media Player it says

'Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file.'

I have downloaded VLC media player however it will not work on there either.

thanks

They are legal videos, they were recorded on one of those Camcorders with the little VHS inside and to play it you needed to put the little VHS into a bigger VHS.

Get in touch with which supplier?

Thanks

try copying the avi file from the disk to your desktop and attempt to play it from there.