This is uber off topic but meh

I have recently been trying to play videos on WMP, and I get this annoying error message.
(See attatchment)
I click 'web help' and it gives me some crap about the File format not being supported (It's a .AVI ffs! :really
. The other thing it suggests is that I need to download some codecs. Could anyone point me to roughly what ones I might need because I have no clue
. I downloaded some codec pack but that didn't work 
.
The only video format it does play is .wmv (Strange eh?
).
This problem is also affecting WMM. I can't import any videos. It gives the error that the file format is not supported.
It all worked fine before
Another problem, which I assume is related to this, is that I can't rip any CDs Using WMP. In the 'Rip progress' column, It just says 'Error' (no error message).
I had a similar problem before, and I never got to the bottom of it, having spent hour upon hour trying every possibility I could find. Not even our computer man could fix it
. Eventually our HDD broke so we *effectively* got a new PC, which fixed the problem
.
This is on a different computer (My laptop running with Vista) and I'm using WMP 11 if it makes any difference. The error code is C00D1199.
Any help would be greatly appreciated


I have recently been trying to play videos on WMP, and I get this annoying error message.
(See attatchment)
I click 'web help' and it gives me some crap about the File format not being supported (It's a .AVI ffs! :really




The only video format it does play is .wmv (Strange eh?

This problem is also affecting WMM. I can't import any videos. It gives the error that the file format is not supported.
It all worked fine before

Another problem, which I assume is related to this, is that I can't rip any CDs Using WMP. In the 'Rip progress' column, It just says 'Error' (no error message).
I had a similar problem before, and I never got to the bottom of it, having spent hour upon hour trying every possibility I could find. Not even our computer man could fix it


This is on a different computer (My laptop running with Vista) and I'm using WMP 11 if it makes any difference. The error code is C00D1199.
Any help would be greatly appreciated