My Divx video playback is... GREEN!

[smiffster]

Hi people,

Im having some strange problems here, whenever I try to play back any DivX vids i get the sound streaming fine, but the picture goes all green and blocky, and is totally unwatchable. Ive read through loads of FAQ's and cant find anything related to this problem. I have tried with a few different films and all produce the same results, i have tried playing in DivX Pro, WMP 7 and mplayer 2 and all produce the same results, going frantic here, help much appreciated.

Smiffster

[YoDa2]

My experience with green and blocky movies was that i installed the wrong codec, to many codecs or none at all.

Check what kinda codec your movie needs. With a program called G-Spot you can check the audio and the movie codec. Since you already got sound i think it is your movie codec. It might be you need a new version of XViD.

[smiffster]

Well I finally figured out what it was, i simply removed Nimo and installed Tsunami and BOOM! It worked. Everyone boycott NIMO (only kiddin), thanx for the reply.

Smiffster

[UncasMS]

i know damned well, why i'm hosting and suggesting tsunamis filterpacks for quite some time;)

[YoDa2]

Ah gonna try that also then if it is so much better. Bye NIMO ;)

[182]

Try a new the latest version of ffdshow

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/

It fixed mij green screen problem

[GreenScreen]

Many people seem to be having this same problem as I once did:

Green screen in Windows Media Player with scattered weird blocks.

Often if you fix this problem you get no audio. Here is an easy way to have both high quality Xvid video and audio (wow! what a concept)

If you have Nimo codec pack installed, uninstall it completely, as well as any other divx/xvid codecs listed in Add/Remove programs. I am not saying Nimo is crap, but it screwed up my computer. I am sure there are very good codecs included in the pack, but it seems unstable.

Download and install the 3ivx codec from http://www.3ivx.com/download/index.html . I have found that their website is down sometimes, so if you get an error, just try them again a little while later.

Now you should have video.

If you still don't have audio go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter/ , click on Download and download the exe version of the latest build (should be the top one). When you install this AC3 audio decoder, your audio should work.

Some files, however use Ogg Vorbis encoding for the audio, in that case install the Ogg decoder from http://www.divx-ac3.com/ .

At least all of this fixed it on my WinXP machine.

Also, if this message helps you fix the problem, please cut and paste this fix to every message board you know of where people are having this problem. Maybe we can put an end to it once and for all.

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Robby