Ever tried to play a video on your computer, and while you could hear the sound, you couldn't see the picture? What your viewer/player software (such as Windows Media Player) is missing is a ‘codec’ – that’s a COmpression/DECompression algorithm your videos were originally encoded with. While you could spend time converting the videos to another format, it may be MUCH easier just to add additional CODECs to your machine.
Here are two free resources:
A) Safely download and install the KLite Mega CODEC collection from File Hippo:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_mega_codec/
B) Now go to the DIVX website and download their free package which includes a player and a video converter, but most importantly, an additional collection of CODECs which also can be used with other viewers such as the built-in Windows Media Player.
http://www.divx.com/downloads/divx/1
Full DIVX details here: http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus
Between these two, you should be able to play your videos in Windows Media Player without having to spend lots of time converting files -- but THAT is the subject of another post!
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