Avi

[demonmagus]

Hi, I have windows vista, and therefore WMP 11 ? I think, anyway I dowloaded divx to watch an AVI *for school so important, but it won't work, basically Im getting frustrated and losing my ability to reason, so was wondering if you guys knew what Im doing wrong argh

 

[helterskelter]

Dose it play but no sound?

If so then try adding AC3

Or try a different program, like winamp, videoLAN

 

[demonmagus]

sound but no video lol

 

[BigC]

Download VideoLan
VLC Media player (free)
http/www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[demonmagus]

still not happening? really confused now

 

[helterskelter]

it must be a funny filter you need to install, have you got DivX installed?

 

[demonmagus]

yep tried BigC's idea as well, windows media player still says it needs the codec (which I've also installed!)

 

[Underwurlde]

AVI's are video and audio container formats for video & audio streams that are encoded (compressed) using Codecs.

The two streams are independant and interleaved. The fact that they both start at the same time and have the same length alows for synchronization.

If either the audio or the video or both won't play then eiter of the streams may contain rubbish (quite a common 'trick' for those ppl who don't want you to watch thier movie but do want you to waste your time & effort dl'ing it) or your computer does not have the correct CODEC installed which is necessary for your computer to unravel and therefore play back the compressed media.

I suspect the latter.

Installl GSpot AVI on your PC (sounds rude, but it's a must have proggy for all things video on a PC).

Drag & drop movie onto ICON to get an understanding as to the codec its is looking for & post back.

Andy

 

[demonmagus]

it says coded IV50 needed , cool

 

[Underwurlde]

So now we know. The FourCC code, IV50 = Intel - Indeo 5.0 video codec.

So I guess you do not have that on your PC?

Get it here (I hope, not tested it)
http/www.updatexp.com/codec-iv50.html

Andy

 

[demonmagus]

So now we know. The FourCC code, IV50 = Intel - Indeo 5.0 video codec.

So I guess you do not have that on your PC?

Get it here (I hope, not tested it)
http/www.updatexp.com/codec-iv50.html

Andy

it works thanks

 

[Underwurlde]

yay!