WINDOWS XP & Windows Media Player HELP

[warrior15r]

Am I the only one or, is there some compatibility issues with the new windows media and divx.01 playing. I can't seem to run SOME of my movies with windows media player, but they run fine with other players such as the bs player and the playa. When i try to use the windows media player to play the movie, media player try's to play it as if it was a song. This never happened when i had windows ME. This problem just recently occured with the media that came with win xp pro. Can someone help me solve this problem please??

[mountrcg]

I am experiencing the same symptoms on a just freshly installed Sony Vaio F809K wit win2k, sp2 and the internet updates. Codecs are all installed but it won't play my divx3 encoded avi's in the WMP 7.2. Picture is grey but the sound is great. It's driving me mad for 2 days now. If anyone encountered and solved that shit .... thx

[doom9]

how about using the good old wmp6.4? it's there, in w2k, winme and winxp.

[mountrcg]

Well, the old guy (wmp 6.4) shows these silly symptoms too. I now installed XP and the problem won't show. In the Win2k installation it still persists with every player except the Playa, but there playback is choppy.

[warrior15r]

So is there no solution for this? The new WMP has such a nice GUI, I would hate to give it up. As far as players go, wmp is the smoothest I've seen. Does anyone know how to fix this solution. THe problem occurs in win xp. Its not only my computer either, other computers with win xp have the same problem as i do. Plays the audio but no movie. Only plays audio from movie. Can someone help???

[prr]

My reply doesn't help to solve Your problem, but do You want to watch a player or the clip?

[Deadalous23]

Is the sound encoded as VBR or ABR, or is it CBR?

[warrior15r]

I dunno what the sound is. It's xmpeg enocoded movie. It occurs on random movies. Some won't play w/ the wmp for win xp but same movie would play w/ wmp for win me...98...etc

[mountrcg]

The sound of my avi-File was VBR. But I don't think it's about sound. The one thing I can imagine is installation sequence.
With win2k I first installed divx4 and afterwards divx3.11 - wmp wouldn't show the video of the avi.
With winXP I did it vice versa and wmp shows the video almost perfectly (there are short sequences that play way too fast!)

[ChristianHJW]

DivX3 is a hack of a proprietary M$ codec, being MPEG4V3. I wouldnt be surprised if they included something to hinder DivX3 movies from playing by blocking the DivX3 DirectShowFilter.

Do the following test please :

Download FourCC changer from Doom9 ( avic100.zip ) and change both FourCC codes ( stream and header ) of your movies from "div3" or "Div4" to "MP43" ( being MPEG4V3 ) and try to play them again. Make backup copy of cour movies before !!

Of course, M$ MPEG4V3 DirectShowFilter doesnt have the nice options of the hacked DivX3 DirectShowFilter, but at least it should be able to get them to work this way ....

[doom9]

actually.. as surprising as it is.. they haven't included anything like that.. divx3 works just fine in xp. Now if I only got some really good drivers...

[warrior15r]

I've only installed divx4.01 codec. I did the exact same thing on windows ME. No problem occured. Its simply this, the movie will run on WMP for windows ME, but the exact same movie and file refuses to run on WMP for windows XP. This is not just one movie, but it occurs on some of my other movies as well. AND some movies that i download do the exact smae thing, doesn't want to run with the windows media player for windows XP. I sort of found a way to go around this problem by just opening the file with virtualdub and setting both video/audio to direct stream copy, then i just simple save the file again and the movie works both both WMP for XP and ME. Is there any way to fix the WMP for WINDOWS XP rather than having to save my movies over everytime?? Please help. I have a lot of movies on cd and i don't want to burn them over.

[TripleM]

Does anybody has a solution to this problem? I have the same problem since this morning and the only thing i´ve done was removing this registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32" that is on the neews of 02/27 and i tried out the BSPlayer in his newest version.
I´m thankful for every help i can get

edit: i have winxp installed

[man_friday]

I too am having the problems which each of you is having. It does not appear to be pervassive in that many other folks seems to be using WinXP with WMP8 and are not having this problem. I do not see anybody listing hardware/software specs. Maybe there is commonality there. I can play AVIs with Mplayer 6.4 and The Playa installed on WinXP Systems upgraded from W2K. On a W2K laptop with WMP8 I have no probs.

My process is: (no laughing now)
DVD Ripper 2.6
Video: Divx 3.11/Flask 0.594
Sound: Radium codec.
This process has been bullet proof pre (devils own) WinXP.
MF