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.
For example, you have a video called Movie.avi, and a script file called Movie.avs. Movie.avs is basically a text file with a few lines that indicate the video to be loaded. So one of the lines will look like this: file = Movie.avi .