Need help playing back divx4.x divx5.x and xvid files

[game2z]

Hi sorry to sound like a noob but I never had any problems with playing back any avi encoded by any of the above codecs but recently i switched my vid card driver and i couldnt see anything when i play but the sound is there.

So i came to this forum and checked around and tried to do whatever i could find. When i install ffdshow all the encodes become blank not just divx4. divx5. or xvid so i got rid of it so i could watch the 3.11 then got the gspot and tried to findout what codecs i needed and it said divx3 low motion or whatever other codec but i have installed those codecs already. These are avi i was able to play before i installed the new driver so i uninstalled the driver and installed my old driver and it didnt fix it. removed all the codecs and reinstalled all the codecs and still didnt work.

So i uninstalled all the codecs and installed the nemo pack and i couldnt watch anything at all. so i uninstalled it and went through one codec at a time installed 3.11 and it plays all the older stuff i have but not the stuff encoded with either divx4.0 or above

when i use gspot to find out if i have the right codec it tells me it has right codec and what it is and it was able to render it. But when i do play the avi i get audio and blank screen.


could someone please help me this is driving me nuts!

thx!

[Enchanter]

Check that your Overlay are properly set. Reset it if necessary. Reinstalling DirectX might help as well.

[game2z]

Thx it seemed to have fixed it

but i have to set the overlay everytime in the video card property its not permenant o well atleast i could get it to play video

thx for you help ^_^

[Enchanter]

You're welcome.

p.s. Perhaps reinstalling your video card driver (to a different, more recent version, if possible) would solve the overlay problem.

[jorgelucas]

Something like this happened to a friend of mine, and unfortunately he found out his vid card was defective. I hope it's not your case, but anyway, you should try installing her in some other PC, just in case you know...

[game2z]

defective video card??

it was working properly before and it plays properly now with the overlay setup so i hope its not the video card but how do i check if its defective?

[Enchanter]

Re: defective video card??

Originally posted by game2z
it was working properly before and it plays properly now with the overlay setup so i hope its not the video card but how do i check if its defective?

The video card is not defective as seen from your success with fixing the problem. A driver problem is more like it, which is why I recommended you to reinstall the driver.