FOUND!: Problem playing a DivX file...... ITS ALL GREEN!

[edro]

PROBLEM FOUND! It's an XVID codec problem! I installed FFDSHOW codec pack and it works fine now!


I have over 150 DivX's and I have pretty good experience with them, but I am having a strange problem on one I have.

Here is the info:
Width: 576 pixels
Height: 304 pixels
Bit Rate: 121kbps
Audio: MP3
Frame Rate: 23 fps
Video Sample Size: 24 bit
Compression: XVID

I have tried all the players I have (Winamp3, WMP, the old WMP, DivX Alpha 2, ATI Media Player, Cyberlink Power DVD) and they all show the movie, but it has the GREEN blotches all over it. The sound is perfect, but the video has green everywhere and skips around. I have the newest XVID installed (from their website), and I also have Divx 5.0.2 installed.

Anyone ever see this before? I also have another file (A Brak Show episode) that does the same thing. I have viewed TONS of DivX's and these are the only 2 that do it.

Thanks for any help!

 

[spanky]

maybe the capture & encoding was bad?

 

[edro]

I think it is just a codec problem..... or maybe a different viewer will work. It clearly isn't the encoding..... more of a decoding problem.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: edro13
I think it is just a codec problem..... or maybe a different viewer will work. It clearly isn't the encoding..... more of a decoding problem.

that's what i said.

/me clicks on "edit"

 

[Sickpuppy]

That green occurs when you have old versions of the direct show filters. =)

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Sickpuppy
That green occurs when you have old versions of the direct show filters. =)

What's that.

 

[edro]

I found this: @ Microsoft but what ones do I want?

 

[lazy232]

XVID is an open souce mpeg-4 codec. You would need to install the XVID codec

 

[vexingv]

lazy232 is correct aboyt the xvid codec...you also neeed to remember to uncheck the "FFdshow Directshow" box in Nimo's codec pack if u're using it

 

[majewski9]

Download Xvid codec!

 

[edro]

found out the answer....w00t!

 

[LakerGod]

How do you install this? I don't see an executable or any instructions.

 

[Auric]

Well, it is verboten to distribute a compiled proggy because then licensing fees would be assessed by the MPEG group, or something to that effect. As for the green schtuff -oh the joys of open source!

Unless you intend to encode, then you are best avoiding Xvid and just using fddshow as the sole decoder for everything.

Of course DivX can be used to both encode and decode too and really is closer to a standard, and has great features and quality but some of those pesky Xvid encodes still do not decode correctly even if the fourCC is changed.

For fddshow et alli, see doom9.org or google