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I am new to all this so please bare with me...i have been trying to play an .avi file with vlc and when i access the file the screen just stays blank! will not pull anything up...im not sure if im even in the right forum so if anyone can help me i would greatly appreciate!!

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com if it's too long.

Also please upload a short sample of a problematic file to either Zippyshare.com (200 MB max) or to EmbedUpload.com, the latter will upload the file for you to several other hosts (use the default ones) and then post the link to the file here.

If needed cut it with DGsplit and read here about how to do it:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=57724&p=193335#p193335
50 MB max should be enough.