How to get Media Player to play DivX AVI

[ArthurDaley]

On eDonkey I downloaded a movie. I presumed I could double click it and it would play. The file name gives away that it is a DivX and AVI but nothing more. Media Player attempts to open it but states that it is an unknown format (extension .AVI).

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[lumis]

edonkey is very unreliable.

try opening the file with virtualdub, and then doing a direct stream (audio & video) output to avi.

[somebodeez]

Open it in GSpot.
Maybe it's DivX 3.11?

[jimmalenko]

Have you got a Divx-capable codec installed ?

https://www.videohelp.com/play#divx and https://www.videohelp.com/play#identify may assist you also.

[ArthurDaley]

Thanks guys. I first tried Gspot.

It said "4CC: DX50/DIVX", name "DivX 5.0".

So I searched and download the DicX 6.0 here http://www.divx.com/divx/codec.php

And that worked. Many thanks.

But problem is that it turns out to be hardcore porn instead of normal movie that I intended. So that was my first and last use of eDonkey.

[guns1inger]

A lesson hard learned. P2P is mostly crap, interspersed with large amounts of total shite. You are probably fortunate you didn't pick up anything else along the way.

[ArthurDaley]

I picked up two bits of SpyWare also

Uinstalling eDonkey now. I thought things has changed since KaZaA, but it appears not.

[jtoolman2000]

I picked up two bits of SpyWare also sad.gif

Uinstalling eDonkey now. I thought things has changed since KaZaA, but it appears not.

Be careful what you discuss here. You clearly downloaded what you throught to be a Movie. Most likely something that had not been officially released yet right?

So in a nutshell, it was WAREZ and if that was the case please choose your words carefully. Please read the Rules before posting specially to new members. I don;t want to have this resource shut down by Big Brother over some well meaning statement by a poster.

[ArthurDaley]

No warez, just home brewed content

There are lots of people producing their own films and using P2P to distribute them, as a way of gaining recognition.

Besides my posts say that P2P appears crap.