Windows media player cannot play my movie

I couldn't play my .avi film. The system could play normally without any problem, I installed all the codecs. Two days ago I have to reinstall the drivers on my speakers and they are not in Windows media player. Any other type of file works fine. I can't just restore my previous settings of the computer. What should I do now?

Xavier wrote:
> I did the same thing as the previous guy did... [I think] and when I
> played your clip.it worked very well. so why not my films
> play? Help me please
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When you say 'Movie' do you mean DVD?

Have you tried the free VLC Media Player:

VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/

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John Inzer - MS - MVP Digital Media Experience

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