Windows Media Player Won't Play AVI? Solved!

Though Windows Media Player is a great program for viewing videos in Windows and it claims to support AVI, there are some problems when you want to play AVI in Windows Media Player, right? Many people like you find that sometime Windows Media Player won't play AVI at all or it only plays the audio track. Don't worry about it! Let's have a look at how to play AVI files with Windows Media Player without any problems.

Here the method fix the "Windows Media Player won't play AVI" issue and other ways to play AVI files in Windows 8/7/ XP/Vista are introduced. Just choose the way you like to watch your AVI movies.

Method 1. Fixed Windows Media Player won't play AVI Issue by install the codec needed
Method 2. Transform AVI videos to be compatible with Windows Media Player with 3 simple steps
Method 3. Bypass Windows Media Player and apply some other AVI video players

Method 1. Install codec package to fix Windows Media Player won't play AVI issue

The problems occur when playing AVI videos using Windows Media Player lie in that Windows Media Player lacks the proper AVI compressor/decompressor or codec. In order to play AVI movies well with WMP, you need to install DivX or XviD codecs first.

You can download and install the DivX or XviD codecs. (Get DivX codecs at: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DivX-5 and XviD codecs at http://www.koepi.info/xvid.html) Then restart your computer and you can then play .avi files with Windows Media Player. Or get K-Lite Codec Pack, a collection of codecs. Generally speaking, with K-Lite Codec Pack installed, you can play almost all the movie and the AVI files should be able to play in Windows Media Player. (Download K-Lite Codec Pack at http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm)

Method 2. Convert AVI to Window Media Video and other formats

If you are not familiar with how to handle video codec for Windows Media Player, there are other methods for you to play AVI files with Windows Media Player. Another way to play AVI in Windows is to convert AVI to WMV, ASF, etc. Windows Media Player formats. (Generally, there is no problem about the WMV and ASF playback in Windows.) You can use Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate to convert your AVI videos in Window (Windows 8 included).

The main interface is as below and you can finish the conversion in just a few mouse clicks: Click Add Files to load your AVI movies > click Output Format to choose a proper output video format > Click the Convert button to begin the conversion.

Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate can also convert AVI videos to play on iPhone, iPad, Android smart phones and many other devices since it offers several optimized presets for these devices. If you don't want to change the video format, the build-in video player in Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate can also fulfill your needs to play AVI videos on Windows-based computer. All you need to do is load the video you want to watch into the program. What's more, no any extra codec package is needed.

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Method 3. Play AVI videos in Windows with VLC

Apart from Windows Media Player, there are some other free AVI players for Windows. VLC is considered as the famous one. Download VLC Media Player at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/, install it, run it and then click File > Open File to load your AVI files for playing. Most AVI files play well with this smart video player.

Consider that you may want to play, convert, burn AVI videos to DVD in Windows (Windows 8) with the simplest way, Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate that integrate video player, video converter, DVD burner, DVD Ripper and online video downloader is highly recommended as the best ultimate solution.