How come my Media player lags when I open .avi? file?

c0kec0la · (#1)

Well, I downloaded without a paddle. It's an .avi and its 2 differnt download things. Part1&2. I try to open one of them and it lags my computer, it wont even go. It says "connecting".....and lags it up. 500 RAM. 2.8 Ghz processor. Doubt that matters but anyone know? I went into options and says that .avi file is enabled. I even downloaded winamp and tried. went on microsoft and did a test of an .avi file, it worked fine.

Please help?