I can't play my movies...

[Matty J]

i recently downloaded two movies, both in an avi format. I wasn't able to play them in Windows Media Player, so i downloaded several different types of DIVx players. Whenever i try to play the movies, whether through RadLight, GDIVx, or just plain DIVx player, i only hear the sound of the movie, but i can't see the image. Why is this? I currently have Windows ME, would that have anything to do with it? Does it have something to do with my video card? I can play quick time videos of my camera, and smaller videos. But these two most recent videos havn't worked. I also try redownloaded them, but still to no avail. If somebody could please shed a little light on the subject, that would be wonderful. Thank you!

[khp]

You are missing a video codec, windows media player should be nice enough to tell you which codec it's missing, otherwise load the file into virtualdub, it should give you an appropriate error message.

[techno]

try installing:

MSMPEG4 codecs (1,2,3)
DIVX 3.11alpha codec
DIVX other crappy codecs

SMR patch codecs

Techno