Any ideas of youtube formats

[Retro Pedro]

Partly can answer the question but I haven't got a clue as to what to do about.
Bascially, I've been using a cheapo Chinese web cam vid camera with the recordings going direct on to a 32gb SD card. In fact, all the vids I've loaded of FOG have been shot using this camera.
Apart from one corrupt SD card, which is now in the bin, and on one occasion when I used the wrong card in the camera (put the one I use on my Kodak camera which is formatted differently) and Rob salvaged what he could - all as been OK. After I got the disc mixed up, I did reformat on the video camera and it seemed to work OK.
I have got the wrong Windows program running on my PC - it's been reloaded with 'small business' rather than the original 'home'. Hence when I boot up, I get the none geniune warning come up, but I just it cancel and it all runs OK. It's something I keep meaning to change but never got round to it. The downside, is I can't get any 'Windows Media' updates becomes it's says the 'Windows' I'm running is not geniune. In good faith, my daughters boyfriend loaded 'DivX Plus Player' for me to open my videos to get around the 'media player' problem.
It seems that since then, I can't get my videos to upload to 'youtube'. Comes up with 'format language is not recognised' or something like that.
Most of the videos I took today, seem to have a 'ATI' format tag which I reckon is something to do with why they are being refused by youtube. Two of the videos, for some reason did write to disc in 'AVI', which I thought was acceptable on youtube. On these vids, it said it didn't recognise the language, but would try to transfer/load - but I don't think it did.
So the next move was to try and view the vids on my PC via 'DivX Plus Player'. Initially it said it couldn't open because it needed device layers or something like that. Just re tried a AVI format video and it's come up with a message that it hasn't got a video track.
Any ideas guys or shall I just launch it. Would really like to try and save the videos that I shot on the Herts/Essex laning day today before it does fly 20' across the garden.

EDIT - Just had a go at opening an AVI video in 'DivX Plus Player' and the actual error message is 'This video is in an unsupported format and cannot be played without installing additional DirectShow filters. I wouldn't have a clue on how to do that.

[brianw]

There are so many different video formats in use today; AVI is the Apple Quicktime format, WMV is for Windows Media Player, MP4 is a general sort of format, FLV is a Flash Video, the sort of video you would download from Youtube, and so on.
With so many formats, the choice of player would seem to be a bit daunting, and downloading additional codecs could introduce extra problems for your PC.
I use Real Player (latest version is 15) for most video formats; it’s free (or you could purchase extra functionality), it opens most video formats and it also has a reasonable format converter built in to it.
Youtube should accept videos in the MP4 format, they them convert it themselves for FLV.
Search for Realplayer with your favourite search engine and once it’s installed, right click on the video you want to view and select “open with” from the drop down list and choose Real Player.
Brian.

[Mr Mud]

Try VLC media player it will open and play almost anything, I don't use any other players and it's free : http://www.videolan.org
Also download AVC @ http://www.any-video-converter.com once again it's free and it will convert any vids or audio files into whatever format you want

[PaulHooligan]

I'm with Mr Mud on this one HOWEVER I prefer to use http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe as a converter.