playin avi. is their a simple answer?

I know that this is childsplay for most, but i just can't seem to get these 'avi' 's to play, DivX isn't helpin either
... any suggestion would be really appreatiated.. Thanks

It's usually a matter of having the right codec installed. Do you know anything more about the video? What it was encoded with?

it says that it requires a vids:mp43 decompressor... but i downloaded it from lime wire, and i am under the impression that Lime wire doesn't compress their final downloads.. ?

are their any, sort of 'all inculsive codecs'- because when I type in codecs on download.com all the options have suspicously low amounts of hits/downloads... so i don't know where to look!.....??
Thanks

http://www.free-codecs.com/

You can try there.

This pack seems to have everything:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm

Thanks, but JMMD should i unistal XviD??

It's Working!!! thats great!! thanks a lot JMMD. This is awesome :) Thanks