prob playing avi

[matneaves]

ok i got a prob with playing any avi's whatever prog i use, what happens is say eg, i load an avi into mediaplayer, i get no pic, just sound, the media player timer scroll thing doesnt work, and then crashes, i exit media player, but still hear the sound, no windows or progs work, and a few mouse click and i hear a beep, and the comp freezes totally

i thought it must of been a codec i installed, couldnt solve it whatever i did, so i thought damn, ill format, so i did

after format, all i installed codec wise was latest divx

ang i get the same prob!!!!

i uninstalled latest divx and installed 5.something, same prob!!!

my comp spec is as follows

xp2400+ cpu
1 gig ram
radeon 9600
240 gig harddrive space

anyone else have this prob, please help

thing is a few weeks ago, all was fine!!

[Forum Troll]

Open the AVI in Gspot. It will tell you the actual codec it uses. Then install the latest version of the codec.

[matneaves]

its not a gspot prob, as i know what codecs they are, as i said they used to work no probs, but only recentyl cant play anything, really got me this one

[celtic_druid]

I still don't see the advantage in hiding what codec it is. If you know everything then why the post?

[matneaves]

i didnt say i know everything, what i said was, i know what codecs the avi's are in, its just that when i try to play them, even tho i got the latest or correct codecs, they dont work and thats bugging me

[jimmalenko]

I guess it all comes down to this:

Free help is good help in my book.


Now either you want our help or you don't. Either way suits me fine personally, but if you do want our help then you'll need to provide some more information.

[matneaves]

i do want peoples help, what im asking is has anyone else had similar probs, i dont have much more info, other than, what ive asked already,

[matneaves]

they were done around divx 5 time, and some less

[mats.hogberg]

i do want peoples help

Well then, do what the nice people tell you to do, for them to be able to help you. Open the AVI in GSpot, make a screen shot, post it here.

/Mats

[matneaves]

ive got quite a few avis movie on me drives, ranging from divx 4.12 to 6

[matneaves]

its mediaplayer the prob, i can play them in winamp now, ive upgraded mp to 10 as i used to have mp 10 anyway, but it crashes so i guess not to use it in future

[matneaves]

sorted. it was divx 6 causing the prob, uninstalled that now all works fine