Going real off-topic here: 'AVI' does not describe the encoding of the movie inside it. It describes the container. 'MOV' is another format that also describes the container. Most AVI media files have movies in them that are encoded with the Windows MPEG based encoders. Most MOV media files have movies in them that are encoded with the Apple Quicktime MPEG based encoders. It just happens that AVI is older, and commonly used on PCs and most commonly attached to Windows Media Player and MOV is usually associated with Apple's Quicktime. I have AVI encapsulated files with QuickTime MPEG-4 encoded movies on my hard drive. Not normal, but it works fine. Back on topic: - Maybe I should wear mismatched shoes to my next Interview! Matthew ---- Sent via Statler, Your Internet Butler - http://www.middlearmonline.com/statler On Feb 28, 2004, at 10:21 AM, David Mueller wrote: > David MR wrote: >> Real Player plays AVI files. So can the Windows Media Player. >> However, I >> was looking at the file name (unitedcommercial.avi). The text for >> the link >> says Windows Media File (which has an extension of WMV). It does the >> in >> twice places, no less. > > AVI an older Windows Media file extension. WMV was introduced more > recently. > > AVI has been around quite a while. AVI files can generally be played > by > most media players, it has been around for a while. When I clicked the > AVI link, it was played in the browser by QuickTime. > > The reason your computer played it with RealOne is that you have the > the > AVI file extension mapped to RealOne rather than Windows Media. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMV > > -- > David Mueller / MRY > dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.quanterium.com