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Sita Atis
03-11-2003, 01:31 PM
What is the latest div x codec and where can I download it so I can play this avi file that I just downloaded which only plays the sound and not the video?

Bulldog
03-11-2003, 01:58 PM
It's right here, suga'. Right here (http://www.divx.com/divx/).

Citizen Bleys
03-11-2003, 02:10 PM
5.2 is the latest codec, AFAIK. It's all available from www.divx.com

Bulldog
03-11-2003, 02:33 PM
Silly me forgot that you can check what codec you actually need when playing video files. Gspot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/) it is.

crono_logical
03-11-2003, 03:22 PM
Of course that video could well be encoded using XVid and not DivX if it still doesn't work, seeing as XVid is getting more popular now - I find XVid to be much nicer myself anyway :p

Sita Atis
03-13-2003, 02:59 AM
yay it works! Thanks everyone! um.. got another question, when I installed the divx, does it go over the older divx? Cuz I don't want two of them to be floating around or do I need to delete the older version?

And what is windows media player 7.1 ? I only use mplayer2.exe , can I delete this windows media player 7.1?

crono_logical
03-13-2003, 03:37 AM
I don't think you can remove Media Player 7.1 or later, Microsoft kind of integrates it into Windows. But you can still use mplayer2 all the time, that's what I do to avoid v8 :p

As for DivX, I believe it goes over version 4 and later, but version 3 remains. It's not a big problem as codecs are generally very small. Media Player will pick the one that's associated with a certain video format anyway depending on how they were installed.

I prefer ffdshow (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/) for all my DivX/XVid/MPEG/WMV1 playback - not only is it a lot more powerful and uses less CPU, but it also has lots of nice on-the-fly filters you can use like deinterlacing, postprocessing (to increase the quality by removing the blockiness of some video), sharpening/blurring, random noise static etc., and statistics too if you want them :p

Sita Atis
03-15-2003, 04:20 AM
okay thanks, it's just I never saw windows media player 7.1 in the add/remove programs list before.