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Originally posted by lopardo

GSpot gives more detailed info

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Indeed, and also WMP will not give the name of the codec unless it can recognise it in some form, GSpot however can look for a codec.
I personally don't find GSpot very stable at times with certain video streams and therefore could be prown to crashing, and therefore would recomend AVICodec over it.

AVIs use many different (MPEG-4 mainly) codecs to play files;
This tool (AVICodec) will tell you exactly which codec you need to play the file, just drag the video file into the program. And then you can pick up the codec you want from www.free-codecs.com.

Also a tool you can install from the website there is called "FFDShow MPEG-4". That is a universal MPEG-4 decoder that can render a lot of .avi files that you may view, if the codec that the file uses is XViD or DivX you can use FFDShow MPEG-4. I find that tool very good for rendering MPEG-4 stream video.