Playback: No sound, no video, but images

[DocSnyder]

I'm using Nic's decoder and WMP 7.1
when I want to start a.xvid.avi i just get black image.
The counter stays at 0:00.00. When I scroll up to the middle or any part of the file i see a still picture but it just doesn't play.

anyone knows what's the problem?

[shiny#3]

welcome to the forum.


sounds to me that you encounter some display driver problems
or direct show problems with windows media player.....

first update direct x to an upto date version that suits your OS

check if your displaysettings are set to overlay mode with a colordepth of 24 bits at least.....

try to use the BS player instead of the windowsmedia player
it is much better in my opinion and it is a "not spying you out " freeware....

it can be obtained at the softwaresection of www.divx-digest.com

if this still does not work check out the sticky posts of no picture , no sound reading the hread under the link

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15328