Extreme codec problem

[Khakiass]

I have a fresh install of Windows 2000. Up to date video drivers, DX9c, Windows Media Player 9. I downloaded the latest version of the Xvid codec for movie playback, and while the movie will play, the color and contrast are terribly off. I'd compare it to looking at a JPEG with only 16 colors.

What's bizarre is that if I use the FourCC Changer app that comes with the Xvid codec and change the movie's fourcc to Divx, it plays perfectly, even though I have no Divx codec currently installed on my machine

If I *DO* download Divx 6, then the movie plays terribly again, regardless of what FourCC I set it to.

I'm really at a loss to explain what's going on. Any thoughts or suggestions?

[junkmalle]

You probably have some other MPEG 4 codec installed and only have Xvid set up to decode the Xvid fourcc. When you change the fourcc to Divx the other MPEG 4 decoder is being used.

[nic2k4]

Install Gspot, it will tell everything you need to know about that movie.

[Khakiass]

You probably have some other MPEG 4 codec installed and only have Xvid set up to decode the Xvid fourcc. When you change the fourcc to Divx the other MPEG 4 decoder is being used.

According to my system, the only codecs I have installed are:

iccvid.dll
Indeo Video 5.11
ir32_32.dll
msh261.dll
msh263.dll
msrle32.dll
msvidc32.dll
msyuv.dll
XviD MPEG-4 Video Codec

Do you know which of those would be conflicting with XviD?

Install Gspot, it will tell everything you need to know about that movie.

According to AVIcodec, the movie is an XviD encoded movie, so it should play without a problem.

[Khakiass]

For future reference, this was a video driver problem. Evidentally nVIDIA's latest release, 77.72 causes some kind of "overbright" problem. There's a beta driver out that corrects it.

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_77.76.html