Need to know what plays DIVX movies on the computer?

[PC Freak]

I'm unfimilar in this. A friend of mine said he has a movie in DivX on his computer but doesn't know how to play it. Is there a special player or is it even possible?
Thanks

 

[evanichka]

DivX as in the compressed movie format used mainly to distribute movies (mostly illegal) on the internet? all you need is a codec for it and you can use win media player to play them

 

[Rendus]

What you need to do is install the DivX ;-) codec from http://divx.ctw.cc/index_main.html

After that, any media player app that is capable of playing AVI files should be able to play DivX files (In Windows anyway. Things get more complex in MacOS and Unix)