![]() ![]() The most common tactic is to convert the file to another common format, like MP4, and display in your all iOS devices. The simplest way is to download a video player, which can support almost all kinds of video formats, including AVI. There are at least 2 ways to play an AVI on your iOS devices. Perian is a great open-source (free) QuickTime plugin that allows to playback most of video formats like that cannot be played natively on Mac QuickTime, like AVI. ![]() But you can usually solve the problem just by adding a plugin like Perian. (Note that this doesn’t exist in WMP12, and is only available in the previous version.)Īnother common option people will recommend when you can’t play an AVI file with QuickTime is to convert it to another common video format, like MP4. Most of the time, you can just check the box Windows Video File (avi) in Menu->Tools->Options->File Type. But is Windows Media Player truly a poor playback tool? Nope. For example, if you can’t open your AVI with Windows Media Player, you might use VLC. When software is the problem, the common solution is to replace one program with another. How to play an AVI with Windows Media Player If you can’t play an AVI file, you have five main tools to use: software, operating system, device, video codec, and audio codec. Note that two AVI files that look the same may actually contain different codecs-that’s what happens when you can open one but not the other. If you want to play AVI, you not only need to be familiar with different tools/ways/platforms to play, you also need to know about codecs. Then you know that each video file contains a codec. The person who put the video inside the video ‘coded’ the video and the person who wants to open the video (that is you) has to ‘decode’ the video. This site sums it up: “Codec, as a word is an abbreviation of coder/decoder. So, when someone talks about a codec, he or she is talking about two things: coder/encoder plus a decoder. A codec just a coder/encoder combined with a decoder. What’s the relationship between them? Actually, a coder and an encoder are the same thing. Maybe you’ve also heard about codecs, coders, encoders, and decoders, and you’re totally lost. They’re important. Here’s a definition: “Codec is a small piece of program that plugs into your computer’s operating system and allows the software installed on your computer to perform the “decoding” for the video that has been ‘coded’ with the codec you installed.” Before moving to the main point, let’s talk about codecs. ![]()
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