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Hey guys,

I have been sent a rather long avi file of a wedding from the UK of my family. I want to watch it but I don't have any sound, I figured it was just that my brother converted the film wrong but it works on my friends Windows machine. How can I find out what codecs I need? Is there a program that I can use that I can open the file in and it will tell me what audio codecs I need. I have tried a few players I have great picture but no sound.

Any ideas?
 
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Not sure what codec you may need, but have you tried different media players? Quicktime, VLC, mPlayer, etc?
 
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VLC Player is the one you need. You can open the specific media file in VLC and hit "Command + I"(alternatively Window > Information > Advanced Information), will give you all the information about the streams (audio and video), even if it can't play.
 
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Thanks guys but it seems to work now.
 

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