Sue, There isn't any reason the an avi file will not play in Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. The age of the clip makes no difference as to why it will not play. Right click on the movie clip (in Explorer) and select "open with". Open the file with either Media Player or RealPlayer. The only reason that you would want to convert the avi to mpeg is if you were burning the file onto a CD to view in a DVD player. Art At 03:40 PM 6/23/2004, you wrote: >Can anyone offer any suggestions >I have an old video clip in .AVI format. >Recent browsers don't want to play with this and so I need to convert it to >.MPEG (so I have been told) >Does anyone know how I can do this > >Sue Nicholson >mailto:hurstead@blueyonder.co.uk