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Movie Maker won’t open AVI

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Archived post from April 9, 2014. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Apr 9, 2014
I am running XP  SP3, and when I try to open an AVI file that plays in Windows Media Player, it says I need a codec. Gspot says the codec I need is 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3. Where can I download it? Or is there another issue?

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