Try Uncompressed AVI, filesize will be large but at least he'll be able to
read it whatever media player he has.

Don't bother with David Candy's URL, he obviously didn't read your question
properly.


"Sine Nomine" <invalid@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I want to give a video file to someone who has Win XP, but I can't rely on
>him having any additional codecs, the latest version of WMP, etc.
>
> What codecs can I use that can definitely be read in all Win XP versions
> of WMP? Can I give him a VCD?