Microsoft recognized the problem and sought to develop a standard that would losslessly compress the video files. Publishers who were more concerned about video quality instead were searching for an ideal compression algorithm that would compress the video files while still preserving the quality. Lossily compressing the videos would save a lot of space, but not without degrading the quality of the videos. Thirty seconds of video displayed in 24-bit color and at thirty frames per second and Super VGA resolutions could take up 680 megabytes of space-the storage capacity of most CD-ROMs in 1992. Publishers faced a predicament regarding how they should distribute videos on CD-ROMs. In 2010 the US government's National Archives and Records Administration defined AVI as the official wrapper for preserving digital video. These files are supported by Microsoft, and are unofficially called ' AVI 2.0'. Many AVI files use the file format extensions developed by the Matrox OpenDML group in February 1996. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video, although these features are seldom used. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. v iː ˈ aɪ/ ), is a proprietary multimedia container format and Windows standard introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software. Then go to my computer, go to your c: drive, go to your windows folder, and go to your system32 folder, and click on edit and choose paste.Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved and known by its initials and filename extension AVI, usually pronounced / ˌ eɪ.

When you find it, right click it and choose copy. Now search your hard disk and/or windows xp cd (do an advanced search, and include hidden and system files) for msvidc32.dll. Then double click vidc.msvc and for value data type msvidc32.dll. Rename it vidc.msvc (if it says you can’t do that that means the value’s already there, then just skip the next step and delete the key instead - right click New Value #1 and choose delete). A string value will appear at the bottom right with name New Value #1. You will notice a bunch of vidc.blahblahblah entries (just to familiarize yourself with the pattern). Make sure that on the left pane Drivers32 is highlighted. Then navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Drivers32. Go to start, run, then type regedit and press enter. These steps assume you either don’t have the proper information in your registry to associate the fourcc with the codec file or the codec file is missing/not in the right location. But if you have nothing to lose try this:

Well I wouldn’t recommend these steps if you’re a newbie.

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