Problems playing avi

[Floodman]

I'm having trouble trying to playback a avi movie with microsoft media player. When trying to play this the screen is green and various graphical problems occur in the movie. At first I could not play this movie at all, then I installed the dix bundle and the latest nemo pack. This enabled me to play the movie but the problems mentioned above occured. I the read a thread in this forum that said to un-install the nemo and only install xvid (this is what G-spot says the compression is). I did this but the problem remains, can anyone please help me?

[Enchanter]

Which XviD codec are you using now? I recommend giving Koepi's plain vanilla decoder a try before trying anything else.

[ShuMO]

Green screen ...

I've encountered this myself. Green screen on xvid data under MS WinMedia player. To verify it was codec related, I opened the file in V-Dub. It played fine.

I switched over to BSPlayer and it failed there as well. I never did succeed in viewing it properly.

[Floodman]

OK, I'll try the that codec, where can you get it? Also is it possible to view the movie in V-dub?

[UncasMS]

OK, I'll try the that codec, where can you get it?

GOOGLE

[Floodman]

OK, that did it!
I un-installed everything and installed ONLY the xvid binary and that fixed the problem!
Thank you all!!!

[Enchanter]

Good to see it worked.

Just in case you are not satisfied with the lack of post-processing settings, give FFDShow or Nic's DirectShow decoder (still buggy though) a try.

[GreenScreen]

Easy fix for Xvid Green Screen w/Blocks or Playing Well w/ no audio

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