hi friends, i finally got the reason for my problem with my avi files not playing on every machines. the reason was that i had compressed my avi files using adobe premeire application using microsofts mpeg 4 codec . when i recompressed the avi files using cinepak codec it now works fine on all the machines. but still i am not able to find out why mpeg 4 compression works on some machines only. ok bye for now and a very happy new year. ........junaid ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.in address at http://mail.yahoo.co.in [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]