


Maybe you don’t 100 percent understand the explanation by Microsoft, below given as I understand, hope it help easier:ĪVI is the container that may contain various audio and video codec. When that happens, you might be unable to use Windows Media Player to play this particular.

In some cases, the file that you want to play uses a codec that is not available or compatible with the Windows Media Player. However, if the codec is not available on the server (for example, because the codec was not created by Microsoft), the Windows Media Player displays a message that your computer is missing a codec. If the codec is available, the Windows Media Player installs it on your computer and then plays the file. The main cause from Microsoft why part of the AVI files are not compatible with Windows Media Player on Windows 10įrom Microsoft support center, the causes are provide: "When you try to play a file that uses a codec that is not installed on your computer, the Windows Media Player tries to download the codec from a Microsoft server. Please can someone help me this is driving me insane. I've tried re-installing WMP, and I've deleted the files excluding the folders in "C:\Users\Ryan\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player" to fix any corrupted settings and still nothing has worked. My laptop unable to play AVI files after upgrading to Windows 10, I don't know why this is happening. Some people still met playback errors when they play AVI with Windows Media Player on Windows 10 However, many AVI files cannot normally playback after upgrading to Windows 10. AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave, which is a multimedia container format created by Microsoft, that ordinarily, Windows Media Player has no problems opening and playing. As the default media player in Windows operating system(Windows 10 include), Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP), makes it easy to play audio, video and view images for Windows users.
