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"Playing movies"

Right, ive downloaded the latest codec pack from the microsoft website as well as numerous other codecs that ive found from google including xvid, but i still cant get a bunch of files to play (black screen no audio), is there a program out there that has loads of integrated codecs that i dont know about?

Div X isn't that good. It only plays half of my movies.

Its a .avi, and ive supposedly got all the codecs for it.

Damarus wrote:
> I presume you've tried loads of different players?

Only really WMP and Div X really, the files will open to VirtualDub though.

Get winamp.

I have problems with Winamp and videos, jittery and so on... just tend to use WMP now.

gamesfreak wrote:
> Get winamp.

Still no luck :(

[URL]http://www.divx.com/divx/download/[/URL]

This is the one I use...

Already got it

When I was trying to play .AVI in WMP it didnt work, but I installed WMT, and that sorted it. Apparently the .AVI codec isnt installed with WMP as standard...

Where you get the file from? As if its Kazaa its probably just a blank movie. If theres no sound and video then its pretty suspicious as normally if you havent got the video codec the audio will play. If its a movie and on 2 discs ie. 2 x 700mb then the audio would be AC3 which requires a audio codec to be installed such as AC3 Filter.

Just re-read you post and you have a few files that dont play, so do the actual files play? As in can move forward in time etc? If they dont play then with DivX you can get a tool called DivFix I think its called. Basically the program fixes DivX files. Sometimes the header of the file is all screwed up which means you can't play the file at all, with DivFix it rewrites the header making the file play again.

Also what does Gspot report back with?