Nintendo's Amiibo, its entry into the toys-to-life gaming accessory business that also includes Activision's Skylanders and Disney's Infinity, seems to be off to a fairly good start. But it could have been much better.
AVI, video player and codec. Generally speaking, playing an AVI requires two things: a video player software and a codec. Each version of Windows ships with a video player software (called Windows Media Player), so that is not a problem. The problem is called the codec. One of the first terms a digital video freshman gets to know is codec.
So youâve got a movie in AVI format, but you want to put it on a disc so you can watch it through your DVD player. Sounds easy, right? The only problem is that you canât just burn an AVI file to a disc. Well, technically you can, but your DVD player wouldnât be able to read it. So, in order to get your AVI movie to play in your DVD player, you need to convert the file into a format that your machine can understand.