The Horrid Green Garble

[AdamJosiah]

How many of you know what I'm talking about from the title? lol. I have an AVI, encoded with AC3 for audio and Xvid for video, which I confirmed with Gspot. When I play it, audio is fine, but the video is all messed up, or "garbled" with squares and a bright green. I know I've seen this problem before but I can't remember what I concluded, anyone got any suggestions on fixing it?

[Baldrick]

re/install latest xvid codec
un/re/install latest ffdshow

[AdamJosiah]

Alright, I did what you said...and now the three players I tried using are doing something different.

Winamp: Looks like it keeps loading the movie but nothing happens.

WMP: gave me the msg "This pin cannot use the supplied media type"

and Divx player: plays the video fine now, but the audio is a horrible fuzzy screeching.

Any ideas whats goin on?

[kush]

Ditch all 3, and try Media Player Classic. Or try VLC (Video Lan something, I think), or I hear Zoom player is good too..

Perhaps you have a codec conflict somewhere? Have you tried maybe uninstalling XViD, and ffdshow, doing a registry cleanup to take out old dead entries, then re-installing?

[AdamJosiah]

Thanks for the help guys, what I did was uninstall everything and just reinstall ffdshow with an AC3 filter. Which means it probably was codec conflictions, either way it works fine now.