Xvid Playback Problems

[meelapo]

Hey there. I've been having some weird problems with XVid over the last few days and I can't seem to remedy the problem. When I try and play an xvid movie all I can see is a blank screen with hints of blue and red every once in a while. There are only two ways I have figured out to fix this:

1. Rebooting the computer seems to fix it

2. If I play an xvid movie in one player and I open another player and play the xvid movie (or any movie) it works. For example, I load up an xvid movie in winamp and I can't see anything save for the blue and red lines every once in a while. I then open another player like VLC or Media Player Classic and it works perfectly. It's as if the only way I the xvid codec will work is if another application is using it.

I am tried to uninstall and install the drivers (K-lite, ffdshow, xvid) and nothing seems to work.

Another thing that may be of interest if after a reboot everything works. If I play a game (any game), quit the game, and then try to play an xvid movie I get the weird corruption. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[celtic_druid]

Opening two movies would (assuming that the first is using hardware overlay) force software overlay. So that suggests that it is a problem with your video card/drivers/settings. That would be the video renderer filter though, shouldn't matter what decoder is used. Definatly should be only effecting Xvid.

[Bjs]

Beware of the k-lite codec pack ... there are things included that should not be installed ... each has information as to why one would install a specific feature ... choose wisely .

Get rid of ffdshow ... can cause problems ... only install if required for conversion process , then remove it .

Update your video graphics drivers .

Reboot pc when done ... and try again .... sounds as though directshow filter corruption has occured .

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http://paul.glagla.free.fr/filmerit_en.htm

Download it , and read the page as to correct usage ...

[meelapo]

Hey guys just wanted to give an update. I may have solved the problem. Three days ago I upgraded to the new nVidia drivers which I now think are the culprit. I went back to older drivers from June and those seem to work well right now. I'll play around more and keep you updated.

[celtic_druid]

I agree about codec packs, but what is wrong with ffdshow?