AVI played with DIVX player doesn't have picture (only sound)

[petal007]

I've download a AVI file and when I looked from Explorer Properties, it says MPEG Layer-3. But when I played using Windows Media Player (version 8.0) or DivX player (version 5.2), it doesn't have picture, only sound. Anyone know how to overcome this problem??

[Enchanter]

Try the DivX codec. If it does not work, you'll need to find what codec was used in the video.
1. Open file in Virtualdub
2. Go to File -> File Information
3. Post the information you see here

[petal007]

Thanks for replying to my email. Below are the AVI information from VirtualDub per your request. Do you see something wrong with it??

Video stream
- Frame size, fps : 352x240, 29.970 fps (33367 us)
- # of frames (time) : 77956 (43:21)
- Decompressor : DivX 5.0 Codec
- Number of key frames : 542
- Min/avg/max/total key frame size : 1032/9496/32273 (5027K)
- Min/avg/max/total delta frame size : 92/3245/47602 (245387K)

Audio stream
- Sampling rate : 44100Hz
- Channels : 2 (Stereo)
- Sample precision : 0-bit
- Compression : Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec
- Preload skew : 9557 samples
- # of frames : 77941
- Min/avg/max/total frame size: 454/666/9557 (50760K)

[Enchanter]

It indicates that the movie was compressed using the DivX 5 codec and hence, installing it into your system should solve the problem.

[petal007]

Thanks again for your reply, unfortunately I've Codec 5.0 installed on my computer and when I looked at another AVI file (the one which can be played) on VirtualDub file information also says Codec 5.0.

[wrathchild]

Had the same problem a while ago

Used to play a kind of movies but suddenly I only had sound....
Did a few things and after that everything was ok again.

Haven't got a clue what excactely fixed thing but I

Re-installed the codec
Re-installed my player (BS-player)
Restarted my PC

Had the problem with all my players and after above actions problem was gone with all players, so I don't think re-installing BS-player did the trick (or maybe it did....:confused: )

Well...... maybe this reply was of some use.....