Hello Zuki,
This is a tough one to answer completely.
The reason is because normally all you do is click on the media clip and that is that. It plays automatically.

This is assuming that your Window Media Player is updated and is being use as
the defalut player.

Now having said that here is the fly in the ointment. (You knew this was coming.)

Although Windows Media Player claims to be able to handle .avi and a whole host of other formats there is a problem.

An AVI file is called a container format. It will hold audio and video. But software engineers have developed a way to compress the audio and video inside the AVI file making it even smaller to download. This new "codec" (that's not a typo for code, that is it's given name) will not play in the Windows Media Player. Unless it is converted or decompressed by an add on program or unless the most updated Window Media Player is in use. Sometimes this won't work either. I know, sounds impossible and without getting to technical the set up and version of your operating system comes into play about here.

Now, since I have said all that you will hear of some people not having any problems what so ever. (Not all AVI files have been given the treatment.)

You also said there was trouble with the WMV format as well. This would make me think that you may not be using the lastest Window Media Player.

I know this wasn't much help but give me an "E" for effort.

Floyd



[This message has been edited by ByRequest (edited 12-30-2004).]