WMP won't play AVI files correctly

[BarnabasSackett]

WMP used to work perfectly with AVI files. I could watch movies, cartoons, whatever with no problems. Then a couple days ago, it happened. I double clicked on an AVI and WMP started up but horrible screeching sounds came from the speakers and when the video was visible it was playing very slowly.

I tried reloading the DIVX and XVid codecs. Then I tried removing WMP, rebooting and then reloading WMP but that didn't help.

DIVX player works fine.

Any thoughts?

Any changes to my system? I re-installed DVD Styler and Sothing Movie DVD Maker. I had them installed before with no issues but have reinstalled Win 7 so had to reinstall those programs when I wanted to create DVD.

 

[Roderunner]

The program I use to watch videos is Download Media Player Classic Home Cinema, Free Video Player Download . To burn files to a DVD, I use Free Video Converter| MP4 FLV 3GP AVI MKV DVD| FREE Download

 

[boohbah]

remove the divx codecs and install sharksoo7 codec pack, shark is a member here and gives good support here.
i have been using these codecs for a number of years with no problems
if you do use them then run the codec pack as admin and then select the sharks reccomended settings checkbox

Shark007.net - Windows 7 Codecs - WMP12 Codecs

 

[BarnabasSackett]

remove the divx codecs and install sharksoo7 codec pack, shark is a member here and gives good support here.
i have been using these codecs for a number of years with no problems
if you do use them then run the codec pack as admin and then select the sharks reccomended settings checkbox

Did as you suggested and everything is now working fine.

Thanks.

 

[boohbah]

good news .