Will I need a mirror to watch those divx?

[Furr]

Hi, I sound new in this, cause I am. I've just started downloading some movies, but since I couldn't watch them all, I followed sombody's advice and use something called "The Playa" to watch them. Wrong! It renamed all vids extensions to DIV'X and everything seems upside down and like an image in a mirror. That means that this playa thing is not working, and when i try to use WMP or Power dvd, I have to use a mirror AND stand upside down!

What's wrong with it? What should I do? I'll apreciate any help.

Thanks

Furr

[{PhX} Ben]

Not a n00b movie watcher, but...

Are you sure you have the good codec installed on your PC? WMP can read almost all DiVx movies, when you applied the correct codec first.

Go to www.vcdhelp.com and check out the Tools section on the left bar.

Here's a quick link to the "How To" Play a movie from that site:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/play

Hope it will help you out...

P.S.: If your files are converted to the divx format, look on that website again, you might find the way to put it back on AVI.

Good luck

[SKD_Tech]

Install FFDShow and try playing the file with either WMP 6.4 or BSPlayer

[Furr]

Thank you Ben: I went to that place and got the Avi codec. Now I can watch those movies, but still upsdide down . I couldn't find the way to return to AVI.

What is FFDShow?

Thankd again

[SKD_Tech]

FFDShow is a codec for Xvid and DivX in the codec settings with FFDShow there is a "Flip Video" Setting. So no you won't have to turn your monitor upside down

[Furr]

Got it. Thank you Skd_Tech. It worked just fine.

[SKD_Tech]

Originally posted by Furr
Got it. Thank you Skd_Tech. It worked just fine.

Glad you got it working

[Furr]

I've got another problem. How come ths screen is so dark when i am watching movies?
Brightness and color in the monitor controls are at its max, and still too dark. Any help with this?
Thanks again

[Enchanter]

Originally posted by Furr
How come ths screen is so dark when i am watching movies?
Brightness and color in the monitor controls are at its max, and still too dark.

If you are already using FFDShow as suggested (by simply downloading and configuring it to handle the various supported formats), try playing around with the brightness setting (e.g. Postprocessing >> Processing Method >> mplayer >> Level Fix >> Luminance + Full luma range).

[chickeneater]

Originally posted by SKD_Tech
FFDShow is a codec for Xvid and DivX in the codec settings

it's not a codec, it is a playback filter. it can only decode certain files codec with certain codecs (Divx, Xvid, etc...)
too bad it can't encode...

[Enchanter]

Originally posted by chickeneater
it's not a codec, it is a playback filter. it can only decode certain files codec with certain codecs (Divx, Xvid, etc...)
too bad it can't encode...

I would describe it as an alternative decoder. One that really excels at the task.

And why would we need it as an encoder? We already have a lot of them around. FFDShow is already an excellent decoder and we do not need any unnecessary gimmicks for it.

[SKD_Tech]

Originally posted by Enchanter
I would describe it as an alternative decoder. One that really excels at the task.

And why would we need it as an encoder? We already have a lot of them around. FFDShow is already an excellent decoder and we do not need any unnecessary gimmicks for it.

Exactly.