strange video format

[aaronqq]

I have Bearshare V 5.10 (same result with V5.25), no

router and Zone alarm V6.5.737 running on an XP

machine with dual core CPU and 1GB memory. For some

reason, any .avi file I download ends up as a Video

Clip format (what is this anyway). Any program I use

to play it only shows spiral lines and not the

video. I tried converting it to wmv and avi formats

using the program Super & ended up with junk. I

downloaded a file I downloaded a year ago which

played ok back then, but now ends up as a useless

Video Clip. I now suspect the problem may lie with

my computer because I got the same result using

utorrent to download a .avi file.
Please let me know if this can be resolved.

[Redapple]

File association problem if i understand your post.

If you use WMP11 then do the follow:

Go to WMP. Go to tools and then to options:
and click on File association. And press the button "Select All".