Movie Playback- not being friendly

[allstar_07]

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

[Luci]

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

[allstar_07]

Error message from divx is:

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

Cheers