Avi files in Vista

[simon.belmont]

I think that it is annoying that vista is setup only to recongize wmv files. I have some old video files from xp that I am needing to burn into dvds. Common sense says do it from the old computer, only problem with that is that the power supply burned out on the desktop. So....anyone know of any drivers that will let vista support avi files for dvd burning?

 

[diogen]

If you leave aside the professional space, AVI is not a video format but a container that can have the audio/video streams in a variety of formats.
For example, video encoded in WMV and audio in AC3 can peacefully coexist in an AVI container.

You are probably talking about the popular on the internet 1-2GB AVI files - those are most of the time DivX/XviD encodes with audio in either AC3 or MP3 format.

Installing the (free) XviD and AC3Filter codecs will take care of most of those files.
Installing ffdshow will take care of all of them (some configuration required).

BTW, Vista is MS' first OS that plays MPEG-2 and DD out of the box as well as WMV/WMA.

Diogen.