gray screen when playing divx3 with divx3-codec on xp

[Houdini]

I don't know what I do wrong but when I play a divx3 movie with the divx3.11 codec I get a gray screen and when I say to play divx3 contents with the divx4 codec it plays and I see it.

This is happening on a win xp machine

What do I have to do?

Houdini

[UHT]

what media player are you using?
i occasionally have this happen to me although it never seems to happen if i open the file in mplayer 8

[Houdini]

It's in every player.

[Cradle22]

I had the same prob with Win 2k and here is the stupid solution:

When playing back the movie, enter the playback filter settings for Divx3 (in media player something like "file -> properties -> extended") and take a look at the color sliders: All settings will be at "0". Simply move the sliders to middle position again, and off you go!

(In BSPlayer simply rightclick in the movie window, select properties -> divx3 filter..)

Somehow the installation of Divx3 does not always work correctly under Win 2k or Win XP...

[UHT]

cheers very much, this quick fix worked for me

[rs008f]

yeah it worked for me too. So everything should stay at 50 in the middle? I also installed the new Divx3 codec from this thread.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32453