0 Playing avi files on windows media player

Windows mediaplayer is a built in player in windows developed by microsoft for playing audio, video, and image files. It is also used for ripping music and burning cd's. Windows media player is designed to play very limited formats like .dat, .mp3, .wav etc. Windows media player has ability to rip music, play audio cd's and save its data into media library. Windows media player can copy audio cd files by recording them in media library.

Now the video file has been divided into several formats like dvd, 3gp, avi, wmv, mkv etc.
The most popular video format is avi (audio video interleaved) format because most of the videos on the internet is of avi format. Avi file contains both audio and video data which allows audio with video playback. An audio and video file is joined to make avi format file.
Now let us discuss the method of playing avi files on windows media player.

A simple windows media player in windows xp can not play avi files. Different codecs are needed for playing avi files on windows media player. These codecs are specially designed for avi files. Avi files are actually a high definition video file thats why a simple media player can not play it untill a proper media codecs are installed on it. after installing that codecs your media player will act lika a professional multimedia player and then you will not need any extra multimedia player for avi files.

To play avi files on windows media player you need to download specific avi codecs for your media player. When you installs avi codecs in your computer, your media player automatically accepts the suitable codecs and starts playing avi files. AVI codecs integrated themselves into windows media player and starts working as a part of media player. AVI codecs makes Windows media player, an avi format player. The suitable codec for playing avi files on windows media player is "media player codec pack 2.0".You will need avi codecs for Windows media player in Microsoft windows xp. In windows 7 or vista media player 11 and 12 is already capable of playing avi files, so you do not need to install any additional media codecs in windows 7 or vista.
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