problem wach video file

[maor]

i have a video file that i want to watch but can't play it is there a tool for knowing which codec it uses.

[miunk]

I'm not sure about a tool. Have you tried using mplayer?

[maor]

that's the problem the codec is not known by mplayer ,xine or avifile.
so how can i know which codec is used.
the file extension is avi.

[miunk]

Hopefully the file itself is not corrupt.

Check this out:

AVInfo

Hope that this helps. It looks like it may be a little tough to get it to compile.