Can't..play...movies...

[yellothar]

I D/Led some movies *cough*ENVY*cough* and I can't get them to work right. They are DivX, and I have a DivX program. It just stays a black screen, even in WMP with the DivX codec or whatever. It just plays a black screen with no sound the whole time. It is AVIs and I have no clue whats wrong.

Thanks

Some guy on the net who likes to eat chicken

[locustfurnace]

Which version of the DivX codec are you using, and older one, or the latest? You might try getting the latest from the developers, and if that does not solve the problem, you should seek help on the Divx.com forum.

[Guest]

is the problem all the movies you downloaded or just some of them the problem could be the downloads especially if they were from a p2p network

[yellothar]

Well, my Chappelle's Show clips work in it and so do the Futurama and Family Guy episodes. I just can't seem to figure out why the Movies don't. It just displays a black screen with no sound, but the play bar moves!

[OldVersion.com Admin]

Are you sure that it requires the DivX codec and not XviD?

[yellothar]

I'm pretty sure, unless the title is lying...

But I also have Soul Plane and it says XVid, but I don't know where to get that.

[Guest]

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fwvideoplay.html xvid and other freeware titles

[Goslow]

you could try G-Spot or the other utilities posted in this thread (http://www.oldversion.com/talk/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=1726&hl=gspot) to try to determine what codecs you require

[Guest]

[QUOTE]the reason why you can play some movies and some not is because they use different codecs. you should download a codec pack like nemo codec pack. just search goolgle codec pack, download it and i'm pretty sure you can play them. or download powerdvd= very powerfull movie player. :ph34r:

[Guest]

http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/product.../5/editions.jsp (http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/products/powerdvd/5/editions.jsp) you can get power dvd from this link although it really isnt much better than some of the freeware titles already listed in threads in the forums

[Joe Strubachincoscow]

Have you tried using the Divx player itself? I had similiar problem.You might try the "ac3" filter i am not of the URL but you can search for it.Hope you get it to work

[locustfurnace]

Originally posted by Joe Strubachincoscow@Jun 1 2004, 06:54 AM
You might try the "ac3" filter i am not of the URL but you can search for it.Hope you get it to work
The ac3 filter is for audio not video.

[Rockoon]

The reason they are blank with no sound is that they are phoney.

This is what you get when you trade in illegal movies such as the latest boxoffice hits. The movie producers offer fake movies on P2P and as more and more people download the fake movie, it becomes very hard to find a working copy. It is in the best interrests of the movie producers to get the fake out fast, so that means they offer a lot of bandwidth for your download. A telltale sign that you are downloading from a professional fake provider is that you are getting unusualy large download rates. They can afford the T3 line.