Preview in Limewire 4.9.28
 

Preview in 4.9.28 simply doe'nt work. my default media player is Windows Media player. It pops up and says that encountered an error. I tried making VLC as my default player yet Limewire opens the file in WMP only when I press Preview button. Interestingly these avi files once completed play well in WMP if played directly.

One thing more, what is this licence thing that halts the playing operation everytime I download and try to play a wmv file? Any way out of that?

You cannpt preview AVI files. It wont work, it will never work, to view a AVI file you must have the WHOLE file, that is why when it is downloaded it works.

To make your vlc your default see Setting Default video app as each window's program wants to become the default & will often ask u if you want to change the default to that program when u open that proggy.

VLC will normally preview avi files fine. But there are numerous kinds of avi files includiing divx, etc.

BTW see CODECs list and alternate players for Movies but I suspect you've aleady seen it.