Todd Guse:
You might want to try the DivX or XviD codec's/players. Both have good success reading .avi files.
Luis Rodriguez Gil:
Hello To stay close to linux stuff, I think you should download ffdshow, you can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow (I think the project's home page is http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net) it provides support for almost every codec, you'll read about that in the webpage. Else, you can download mplayer for windows at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ or better, Mplayer Control (a frontend for mplayer) at sourceforge.net, too.
I hope you find a solution. Good Luck.
Chadley Wilson:
Go to http://www.free-codecs.com and download and install the latest XP-codec pack there..
Thank you for your hints. Regrettably it is not the solution I am looking for. I will give my CD to customers and I can't ask them to go and download anything. They just want to put a CD in their drive (or even DVD-drive on their TV) and look at it. So I have to provide such a CD that is just running in "all" computers using standard programs that just are there by default. Actually I don't care, if at the end it's an avi or an mpg or whatever (I joust thought avi would be the right one, it sounded so windowish to me...). I am almost sure, if I use the right settings in dvd::rip then this should be possible. But what are the right settings/codecs? Can anybody help...? Daniel b.t.w.: as many people still have old systems (Win 98, ME etc.) I can't use something that is just running on XP. DivX, for example, is not supportet for Win98 anymore. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com