Xvid - green & speckled video

[Bargarz]

Hi I am an absolute noob with this.

I have a Xvid movie ripped straight from a DVD and plays fine on another puter.

I initially tried it on my PC and only audio would play.
So I downloaded Nimo ver 5 build 8.
I removed old Divx codecs and installed Nimo as directed.

Then I tried again.
The video is solid green with fixed, coloured speckles all over the top half.

Please help!

I have a Win98 PC running Windows Media Player ver 7.01
Should I go to ver 9?

cheers

<b>UPDATE:</b> I've found this <a href="http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15755">similar post</a> and will try the suggestion there which is to download ffdshow20020607.exe

<b>UPDATE2:</b> ffdshow20020607.exe is not at the suggested link although there is ffdshow20020606.exe and ffdshow20020617.exe

I'll try 20020617 and see how it goes...

[Enchanter]

FFDShow: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

You might want to give Koepi's plain vanilla decoder a try as well: http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/

[Bargarz]

Thanks!

Thanks Enchanter

While you were typing up your answer I tried the steps in my updated post. 20020617 seems to have done the trick. It lives!

The video momentarily freezes for a split second every 30 seconds or so so I assume that is just a buffer issue in the player?

Thanks for the extra suggestion - and so fast! This is a really informative site.

cheers

[Enchanter]

You're welcome.