Grey movies - frustrating

[tnn]

So one day I,m about to watch a movie and for no obvious reason the video is all grey. Sound is ok though.
After some testing I noticed that it only affects .avi files, not all my avi files but most. The strange thing is that in XP when the file is selected and a small preview is shown, it shows the first frame.
After a couple of hours of searching I end up in this forum and find ppl with the same problem, but most threads just died without a solution or was to technical for me, except one where a guy mentioned that the movies works in DivX player wich works for me too.

So I can watch them in DivX player for now wich is alot better then nothing at all, but it would be nice to get this over with.
I noticed gspot screenshots was wanted from those who wanted to help so I included one here.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled some codecs, divx 5.05 is one since I thought thats the one being used.
I got bsplayer, Divx player, zoom player and wmp.
The codecs I have is: Nimo50Build8, Tsunami_Filter_Pack_3_9_7, xvid, ac3filter_0_70b, Divx505, ffdshow-20020617.

Btw, half of my .mpeg files are acting weird(I dont dl them anymore cause of it) the sound works good but the video playback is kinda choppy, it stops for a sec, then during the following second it "catch up" with the timeline and keeps doing this all the time, and no... its not my computer who is to slow its proberbly something with the codecs and I've reinstalled them all over and over. But like I said I dont download mpeg files anymore so I solved the problem that way

Grateful for any help

/Tnn

[UncasMS]

i'd reinstall the vga driver and use an up2date (your version is very old) version of ffdshow AND tsunami (go for 3.9.9 from my page)

[hilikeamofo]

i am experiancing the same problems. All my movies are have a grey backdrop and dont even work normally through DIVX player. I am very frustrated and dont know what to do. I am hoping that someone has figured out this problem and can tell me how to do so myslef. I have been searching everywhere and this is the closest that i've com to an answer. I realy dont feal like reinstalling windows xp just to fix a codec glitch but it's looking like it's coming down to that.

[Qyd]

you have a lot of codesc installed, they might generate conflicts. Divx player probably uses a specific codec, not the system one(s), that's why it works.

try to uninstall all the codecs and install fresh. If all you want is playback, just install ffdshow.