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bill4588

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I'm downloading some episodes of Smallville with acquisition and it says it's an AVI file, but when I preview the file I either get a white screen that's "playing" or a message saying that the file cannot be read. is there a way I can fix this?
 
You need to install the proper codecs.

A far better solution would be to download VLC - it's simply the best player out there and will play virtually any and every format, unlike QT. 😎
 
You probably need to install some kind of codec for .avi files - try this one out. Failing that use VLC as ~Shard~ suggested, which will pretty much play anything. 🙂
 
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