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Posted by tranceaholic on Apr-29-2003 04:17:

xvid help

hi everyone, i downloaded the xvid codec but i still cant play the filed..after i install the codec what am i suppose to do..thanks

Posted by DarkTrance on Apr-29-2003 04:37:

did you use the xvid installer?

Posted by tranceaholic on Apr-29-2003 04:51:

yeah and i have the following files avic,minicalc and statsreader

what to do next?

Posted by AussieTrance on Apr-29-2003 06:09:

are you sure its xvid and not divx? try installing nimo and some of the codecs in that, might help... oh, and what type of file is it, .avi, mpeg?

think this is the site for nimo
http://nimo.titanesk.com/modules/mydownloads/

Posted by tranceaholic on Apr-29-2003 06:12:

its .xvid...no its not divx..i downloaded the xvid codec but dont know what to do next

Posted by DarkTrance on Apr-29-2003 06:39:

thats not the xvid installer :P when I first used xvid I was confused like you :P goto google and search for "xvid install" it should be a seperate program what that exact name (atleast how I have it on my comp) and rather small about 300kb; if that fails, I still have the installer on my comp and I can send it to you

Posted by AussieTrance on Apr-29-2003 09:39:

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Originally posted by tranceaholic
its .xvid...no its not divx..i downloaded the xvid codec but dont know what to do next

if its xvid and you've installed the codec, then all you need to do is open the file in Media Player, or whichever one you prefer to watch your xvids on

Posted by Disney on Apr-29-2003 11:36:

Try looking here for the latest ffdshow filters.

Posted by Delerium4ever on Apr-29-2003 12:49:

...same problem

Posted by Werewolf on Apr-29-2003 23:50:

http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

Posted by arjoderoon on Apr-30-2003 12:13:

try to find the program g spot 21, it reads a movie file and says which codec you need....

google for gspot 21? or maybe xvid + codec

edit: check here: http://www.moviecodec.com/identifycodec/

Posted by cheesenip on Apr-30-2003 19:26:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tools

Go to that link for everything you need to know about dvd/divx/vcd/svcd etc... all the programs you need are on their including players, codecs, encoders, decoders, and there are guides on how to convert dvd-->divx, and divx-->svcd and so on.

The program you should use is called G-Spot as mentioned before. You load up the AVI file in that program and it will tell you the video and audio codecs that are necessary to play it. It will also tell you whether you have those codecs installed or not.

Sometimes what I do is uninstall the xvid codec and then reinstall it. It works sometimes, but maybe it's just luck?

Anyways visit that link. Everything you need is there.

Posted by Z1D on Apr-30-2003 19:35:

I've had the same problem, heres how I fixed it:
I installed the xvid codec but was unable to view xvid encoded movies in windows media player. Why I think this happens is that xvid is not automatically recognized as a codec when opening a video.
In order to view a xvid file, you have to manually set the codec that you are using to the xvid mpeg-4. Im not sure if you can do this in windows media player, I downloaded a little viewer called 'virtual dub' which allowed me to configure which codec i used. Problem solved.