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I am a novice user with minimal technical knowhow.

I'm using VLC 3.0.8 with macOS Catalina. I have a .AVI file that will not play with audio. When I open it, I get the message:

Unidentified codec VLC could not identify the audio or video codec"

I looked on the VideoLAN wiki, and all of the instructions sent me to a "tools" menu, which I cannot find (I presume it exists in the Windows version).

Any suggestion on how to play this file with audio? I cannot obtain a new or different copy of this file. It is on a CD, and it's the only copy available.

FWIW,

I just tried a converter from the App Store to convert it to a MOV, and that didn't work. It did tell me that this is a h264 and then says "Audio: none, 8000 Hz, (null)" I don't know what any of that means.

Edited to remove name of converter, since I guess that’s not allowed.

Man, nobody has anything for me?

Please upload this problematic file to Zippyshare.com (200 MB max) or to WeTransfer.com and then post the link to the file here.
http://www.zippyshare.com
https://wetransfer.com