Sony vegas 12 problems ( Cant open avi video files )

[playboyz]

Hey guys i installed sony vegas 12 and i had no problems with opening avi files in the begin it was all no problem, But for some reason now my sony vegas keeps saying that he cant open the files anymore or i cant even drag any files into my sony vegas. I tryd to install codecs and tryd to replace the file aviplug.dll but that didnt help me solve my problem. I even tryd to reinstall sony vegas but still the error appears on the screen. Some kind of codecs or whatever are corrupted or some kind im not really into this stuff so thats why im asking here for any help does someone know what to do or can someone help me out with this problem ?

really appriciated.

Also a bad thing is ... i dont know what codecs are 

[Rusch69]

Watch and understand this first off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWki9a7s18

You did the exact wrong thing by just installing a shit ton of codecs. If the software fails to read audio/video content of a file, you should ideally install that one single missing codec manually. I'm suggesting you to remove all recently installed codec(s) & Vegas. Get MediaInfo and check the used codec of the AVI's video content. Then install that single codec and reinstall Vegas afterwards.

[playboyz]

Watch and understand this first off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWki9a7s18

You did the exact wrong thing by just installing a shit ton of codecs. If the software fails to read audio/video content of a file, you should ideally install that one single missing codec manually. I'm suggesting you to remove all recently installed codec(s) & Vegas. Get MediaInfo and check the used codec of the AVI's video content. Then install that single codec and reinstall Vegas afterwards.

I have seen the video by now , But still do not understand 100% what the word codec itself means though. Also im really bad at fixing problems with this codec stuff, So if you can help me with that i would really appriciate that and pay you off with credits. If you like to though i hope someone can help me out with this, because im kind of frustrated, because i can't edit nor render anything anymore. If you want to help me out Rusch send me a pm and we have further contact. I'd suggest if you're going to help teamviewer i hope you will help me with this because im like totaly frustrated.