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  • m.d.
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Apr 2002
    • 9

    help... total ignorance

    i am a total beginner(please forgive me)
    i downloaded a avi movie and a divx5 player but it will not open the file.
    windows media player said it could not find a decompressor...
    what do i do next?
    thanx
  • Enchanter
    Old member
    • Feb 2002
    • 5417

    #2
    Try using the combination of 3.11 + 4.12 (Telling it not to playback 3.11 contents). Many have trouble playing back DivX movies with 5.

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    • m.d.
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Apr 2002
      • 9

      #3
      ????

      i am really ignorant!!
      this 3.11+4.12 are these codecs or player versions and where can i get them?(i've just downloaded a movie for the first time...i didn't even realize it was possible yesterday)
      thanx again

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      • Enchanter
        Old member
        • Feb 2002
        • 5417

        #4
        Digital Digest DivX XviD Software Section - List of recommended, top 10 DivX, XviD and AVI software, latest news and updates


        Use Wmp6.4 for a beginning. You should be able to find it in the folder x:\Program Files\Windows Media Player, where x is your Windows partition. WMP6.4 goes under the name mplayer2.exe.

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        • m.d.
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Apr 2002
          • 9

          #5
          i found mplayer2.exe and tried it
          it said no suitable decompressor could be found

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          • Enchanter
            Old member
            • Feb 2002
            • 5417

            #6
            You need to uninstall DivX5 first and then install the codecs I recommended to you and in the given order: 3.11 -> 4.12.

            p.s. Actually you don't really need 4.12 if that movie was encoded with 3.11, but it never hurts to have it installed, as long as it does not interfere with 3.11 content playback.

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            • m.d.
              Junior Member
              Junior Member
              • Apr 2002
              • 9

              #7
              i uninstalled divx5 then installed 3.11 then 4.12
              turned off the computer,restarted and tried the movie in mplayer2
              with no luck , i have tried 2 different files niether work

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              • Enchanter
                Old member
                • Feb 2002
                • 5417

                #8
                It's probably not a DivX file then. Open the video in Virtualdub and open File Information. Post everything you see here.

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                • m.d.
                  Junior Member
                  Junior Member
                  • Apr 2002
                  • 9

                  #9
                  here it is
                  frame size fps 352by240 14.985fps
                  #frames time 54464 (1:00:34)
                  decompression divx mpeg4 lomotion
                  #of key frames 364
                  min avg max total key frames 1079/5069/13024(1803)k
                  " "total delta frame 176/2521/18343(133187)k

                  audio
                  sampling rate 24000hz
                  channels 2 stereo
                  sample precision 0 bit
                  compression fraunhofer 2s mpeg layer-3 codec
                  preload skew 3128 samples(0.13s)
                  #of frames 54451
                  min avg max total frame size 281/36062/1095053637(1917608)
                  thats it

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                  • setarip
                    Retired
                    • Dec 2001
                    • 24955

                    #10
                    Your .AVI file, if it's legitimate, was created using the DivX v.3.11 codec...

                    You should be aware that the risk you take in downloading files is that there are an awful lot of phony files floating around...

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                    • Enchanter
                      Old member
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 5417

                      #11
                      It is indeed a 3.11-encoded movie, if it is real. One thing I should ask is whether you have properly installed 3.11 codec. Did you run the Register_Divx.exe file?

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                      • Kremen
                        Junior Member
                        Junior Member
                        • Apr 2002
                        • 1

                        #12
                        I've had a similar problem with some movies trying to run them under WinXP. I've found that WinDVD3 player will play most anything from Dvix to VCD . Infact I've found very little that it won't play.

                        Cheers

                        hope that helps

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                        • m.d.
                          Junior Member
                          Junior Member
                          • Apr 2002
                          • 9

                          #13
                          i did run register, i am using windows me

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