This is what from ashes at bandofbuggered.com taught me when I had the same problem (in her own words): ---- There was once a raging war going on between Real One Player and all the Videos out there. You see, some of the Videos, when they were born, were saved as an AVI file. Well Real One Player is very snooty and looks down upon AVI files and says, "you are not worthy." The God of all that is technical sees this growing conflict and says, "This is not good." So he bringeth forth the Codec, a program designed to bring peace and harmony between the Real One and the Videos. He then scatters the Codecs in downloadable form across the internet and says, "Let there now be peace."
So, all you really have to do is download a good Codec (yes, unfortunately there are more than one kind) and you will be watching AVI files to your hearts content.
go to this site.... http://www.divx.com/divx/
This is the DivX Codec. As you scroll down you will see three Divx Codecs available. Just select the first one (it iss basic, but should be all you need) by clicking in the little circle below it. Then click the download button. Save it to your computer. then you are done!
The cool part is that it is an .EXE file, which means that once you download it, it will take care of itself and you shouldn't have to fiddle with it. And don't worry, this is the official DivX site, so there is no worries about getting a crappy product. ----- Magarettt again: I found the above to be extremely helpful in vid viewing. After downloading a codec, you just go back to Real One player and tell it to play your vid -- and it will! No knowledge necessary, which was great for me. :) Good luck -- if something doesn't work, post again/e-mail me and I'll go find something else.
This is your "Hey, new friend!" from me: I adore your fic and your loveliness to the wonderful doyle_sb4. :)
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Date: 2003-07-05 11:29 am (UTC)----
There was once a raging war going on between Real One Player and all the Videos out there. You see, some of the Videos, when they were born, were saved as an AVI file. Well Real One Player is very snooty and looks down upon AVI files and says, "you are not worthy."
The God of all that is technical sees this growing conflict and says, "This is not good." So he bringeth forth the Codec, a program designed to bring peace and harmony between the Real One and the Videos.
He then scatters the Codecs in downloadable form across the internet and says, "Let there now be peace."
So, all you really have to do is download a good Codec (yes, unfortunately there are more than one kind) and you will be watching AVI files to your hearts content.
go to this site....
http://www.divx.com/divx/
This is the DivX Codec. As you scroll down you will see three Divx Codecs available. Just select the first one (it iss basic, but should be all you need) by clicking in the little circle below it. Then click the download button. Save it to your computer. then you are done!
The cool part is that it is an .EXE file, which means that once you download it, it will take care of itself and you shouldn't have to fiddle with it.
And don't worry, this is the official DivX site, so there is no worries about getting a crappy product.
-----
Magarettt again:
I found the above to be extremely helpful in vid viewing. After downloading a codec, you just go back to Real One player and tell it to play your vid -- and it will! No knowledge necessary, which was great for me. :) Good luck -- if something doesn't work, post again/e-mail me and I'll go find something else.
This is your "Hey, new friend!" from me: I adore your fic and your loveliness to the wonderful