DivX - No Data

[maurik]

I have a medium sized DivX file of ~400mb, it is encoded in DivX 5.0 format.

When I try to play it using WMP it just gives me a black screen where the movie should be playing, however it is playing as the seek bar is moving along the bottom.

I opened it with g-spot and it told me that the file was working OK, however all but 3Mb of it is neither marked as 'data' nor as 'junk'.

I have never encountered this problem before and i am unsure of what to do, so please help me fix the file!

[Tommyknocker]

Do you have the codec loaded as well?

[maurik]

(sory for replying so quick but....)Yeah ofcourse I have a suitable codec installed that can play the avi file....

[chicola]

Have you tried divxfix ?

[maurik]

no I havnt, I will try it now

Update: 20:27 GMT

That didnt work (all it does is cut down the useless data and gave me a small 7mb AVI file), the problem is obviously that the unmarked data is not recognised as video data... is there anyway to change that

[maurik]

I have figured it out... my file was a fake serves me right ......

i downloaded winhex and opened the file, scrolled down and saw many "00"'s and they continued as i scrolledl so down the file is a fake .....