Xvid playing problems

[reynoldsburt]

I have some Xvid files, that when I double click on them to play in the basic Windows Media Player, the file launches and about 2 seconds after the video comes on, there is a Windows Explorer error, and basically everything but the background goes blank, but the video still plays, then slowly everything comes back up. Even if I simply click once on the file in the folder, it will freeze up and restart windows explorer. Oddly enough, in some DVD authoring programs like Nero and Divx to DVD, I can select these video files with no windows explorer freeze ups/errors. Any suggestions? I'm on Windows XP.

[yoda313]

try virtualdub. Go to the video tab and select error mode. Then it will let you know if there are bad frames or other errors in the file.

[celtic_druid]

regsvr32.exe /u shmedial.dll to disable MS' buggy thumbnail shell extension. You reckon they would have fixed this by now though? Guess you can't expect too much from MS though only been a couple of years.

[redwudz]

I managed to disable WMP completely on my computers and have been happy with the loss. I use Zoom player and VLC most of the time. I like Zoom because I can configure it easily to the way I want it and it saves the configuration for future use. VLC is a good standby to play just about anything you throw at it.

[reynoldsburt]

I downloaded VLC.... but it's now having the same problem as WMP has. I'll have to try virtualdub and see if there's errors.

[handyguy]

Don't you need codecs to play with windows media player?

Also try Bsplayer, it seems to play whatever I ask of it.

[reynoldsburt]

I have the latest codecs for Xvid installed, but that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.