I'm having the same problem when trying to play a downloaded avi file. It will not play period (video nor audio) in windows media player or real player. I downloaded the player you suggested and it played but with no sound or video again (but this time it would actually attempt to play). So when I say play I mean the time bar moved like it does for normal movies, expect I didnt' see nor hear anything..

I run gspot and it says that this file is not a valid avi file. Does that mean that I've downloaded a bad file that just is not going to play?

I'm living overseas and dying to watch the fall premires!!