DivX Help ?
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DivX Help ?
Can anyone help me to get this working ?
I've downlaoded a few "Red vs Blue" clips . . . I'd heard about them for ages, but never actually seen one . . . very clever and funny.
The more recent ones are ".wmv" files, and they are fine, but the earlier ones are ".avi" . . . but are actually DivX ?.
Anyway . . . I've downloaded DivX and installed it, but all I get now (and all I got before) is the soundtrack but no video.
I usually use MS Media Player for viewing video clips . . . and I've also just downloaded Winamp . . . but the same thing happens in both.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I've downlaoded a few "Red vs Blue" clips . . . I'd heard about them for ages, but never actually seen one . . . very clever and funny.
The more recent ones are ".wmv" files, and they are fine, but the earlier ones are ".avi" . . . but are actually DivX ?.
Anyway . . . I've downloaded DivX and installed it, but all I get now (and all I got before) is the soundtrack but no video.
I usually use MS Media Player for viewing video clips . . . and I've also just downloaded Winamp . . . but the same thing happens in both.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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All I had to do was get the most recent version of the codec at :
http://www.divx.com/
All works fine now.
http://www.divx.com/
All works fine now.
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The thing to remember is that it's not the file format that counts - avi, mpg, wmv, etc - but what software is used to encode (create) the video.
It's possible to have a DiVX encoded wmv (windows media video) which can play in a divx player, or in Windows media player v10 or v9. It usually wouldn't play in a v8 player. That file would be quite different from a mpg file using Windows video codecs.
It's a hassle that there are so many different encoders types out there, creating confusion for people yet all staying with a similar format !
It's possible to have a DiVX encoded wmv (windows media video) which can play in a divx player, or in Windows media player v10 or v9. It usually wouldn't play in a v8 player. That file would be quite different from a mpg file using Windows video codecs.
It's a hassle that there are so many different encoders types out there, creating confusion for people yet all staying with a similar format !
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Well my K-lite packis 2.2MB for just codecs.Eagle32 wrote:K-lite is a large codec pack that includes several divx versions. It's not better than DivX. It just puts all the divx versions ad a whole lot more codecs together in one package.
I have many videos that the DivX codec won't play, but K-lite does
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That's my point. K-lite is a codec pack (a collection of many codecs). Not a codec. It includes the current and several prior versions of the DivX codec as well as various other codecs.When you play a video your player uses the appropriate codec to decode the video. Obviously if you have a whole lot of codecs (like the large number tha are part of the k-lite pack) you can play videos that use any of the codecs in the pack.Typhoon wrote:Well my K-lite packis 2.2MB for just codecs.
I have many videos that the DivX codec won't play, but K-lite does
I meant "large" as in "large numer of codecs" not "large file size"
Is the plural of "codec" codecs or codices or something else?
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i've not ever had any issues with the K-Lite codec pack. I have the larger install which allows encoding aswell for almost all the codecs it has, aswell as a few player programs.
If you really dont like codec packs, then the best player is VideoLAN (google) it doesnt need the codecs, as i believe it has them all built in, and so you dont have to install any.
If you really dont like codec packs, then the best player is VideoLAN (google) it doesnt need the codecs, as i believe it has them all built in, and so you dont have to install any.