Can't play some DIVX files.

[Tel147]

Hi, i can't seem to play some divx files, i checked them using video inspector but nothing comes up. can anyone tell me why that is, or a program that can?

any help would be appreciated.

[Sifaga]

more info

what are you using to play them

what error do you get

[plcpower]

never used video inspector before, i use Gspot when i have this problem,but need more info to help you out

[DarrellS]

I have seen some newer DivX that won't play with the 3.11 codec. Make sure you have the newest codec and also make sure that they're DivX and not XviD.

[Tel147]

I've been using windows media, divx player (latest) and xvid player. the errors i got were "file type not supported" and check it is a valid mpeg4 file. i tried gspot and got "not a valid avi file". should i give up?.

[jtoolman2000]

Sounds like they are not DIVX as you think they might be.

[DarrellS]

It's possible it's a quicktime file. If you have media player classic, install quicktime alternative and see it that helps. I downloaded some files that said they were MPEG-4 and they were QT files.
Real Alternative is good to have also. No need for a bunch of players if you can play everything in Classic.

I also had to install the new WMV9 codecs even though I had WMV9_VCM because of the new audio.