After reading this paragraph, Try atest to see whether your computer can handle avi files. I find Internet Explorer will not open the video and sound correctly without some hacking, and I am sorry I do not want to be responsible for trying to tell you what too do and messing up your Browser. Other Browsers work well such as Sea Monkey Chrome Safari and even ok on some Macs. I am trying to correct this but heaven knows I have no idea what more to do as I have already spent a lot of time trying to get Internet Explorer to work. I will keep trying. Click on the following to see if it works. This is 3 seconds in color and with sound.:
click
here for atest or
http://donredding.com/ourmovie/atest.20101017-140725.3seconds_xvid.avi
This file also on line at
http://donredding.com/ourmovie/
Below are some of the videos. Some in black and white, some color, some sound, some no sound - but all have moving videos!