Your iPad can play a variety of audio and video file types, including AVI video files that you transfer from your computer to the device. These files are played back using the default "Video" ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...

Playing AVI files in your browser requires that you have the right codecs and Firefox plugins – without those, you're only going to get the message that Firefox is ...

Reader Jon Nunes has old movies and a new operating system that don’t see eye to eye. He writes: I have a lot of old .avi movies from the days when I was using a Windows PC. I’d like to play them on ...

If you receive an error message – Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file, when you try to play AVI, WAV, MOV, etc., you need to install ...

Last month we tried some MPEG players, including aKtion, gmpeg, gxanim, MPlayer, plaympeg, XAnim, xine and Xtheater. We also looked at the Be operating system in order to compare its video ...

I have a MicroSeven security camera that saves video as AVI files, such as this magnificent example of USPS customer service. VLC can play the videos, and reports them as "H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part ...