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Hi,
On my site i need to display AVI files in media gallery. Im currently running ver 0.98b which i know isnt the latest...AVI files come up as unrecognised file type when importing them though (.mov files are fine). Will an upgrade to the latest version of media gallery fix this or is there still no AVI support?

AVI files are not directly supported by Media Gallery, but in the later versions (v1.3.x) you can import any filetype and Media Gallery will simply place a download link for it.

The reason why AVI isn't one of the supported video types is because it does not stream well over the Internet, instead, the entire file must be downloaded before playing. What I do, instead of using AVI files directly, I convert them to WMV or ASF format which does stream nicely. Microsoft has a free tool to do the conversion, it is Windows Media Encoder. You can download it from Microsoft's website if interested, just search their site for it and you'll find the download link.

It actually would not be very difficult at all to add direct support for AVI if it is very important to you. Let me know, I'll be happy to place it in the next development release (v1.3.6) which should be out in the next few days.

Thanks!
Mark

I have updated to latest version...and had a go with the download any file feature. I really would like full avi support though...I would rather provide AVI to my users which is more universally implimented than proprietory microsoft codecs. Yeh I know AVI is a proprietry M$ codec...im chosing to ignore that