xvid plays, no other divx will

[pickthenimp]

I use the latest version of bsplayer to play all of my .avi files. For some reason none of my old divx movies I have will play. I use g-spot and it finds codecs for audio and video but I either get just audio with a gray screen, or often bsplayer will just give me a weird frozen staic image and bsplay will crash. Anything I can do to fix this? I even tried that Tsunami filter and got rid of all my codecs, then reinstalled all the codes in the pack. Any help is greatly appreciated,
-Nick

[setarip]

Do they play under Windows Media Player?

[pickthenimp]

nope, every media player i use freezes

[Enchanter]

Try FFDShow to decode both DivX- and XviD-compressed .avi files.

[pickthenimp]

how do I direct only the fddshow codec to the avi when I know I have many others installed?

[UncasMS]

when ffdshow is installed, run the configuration or play a file which should use ffdshow, then rigfhtclick into your player for the ffdshow configuration.

you will find CODECS.
set your mpeg-4 formats like divx3-5 + xvid to LIBAVCODC