Movie Playback- not being friendly
 

I've been trying to open a .avi movie, i've tried VLC player, Kaza-lite codec pack, divx, wmp, all with no luck. Does anybody know of any good codecs that might do this job, i'm pretty sure it is a codec problem. Is there a way of seeing what the file has actually been encoded with then find the correct codec?

Cheers

well divx plays most video types.maybe the file is corrupted?more info please.
doesn an error pop up what???

Error message from divx is:

File failed to open: Please check that this a valid AVI of MPEG-4 file.

Cheers