View Full Version : XviD beta2 screws up WMP9?


hykosphy
18th December 2003, 12:45
I've tried to search this forum for a while searching for an answer to this problem, but I can't find it anywhere.. so that's why I'm making this thread... If someone already has answered this, please direct me to the thread...

Anyway, the problem is not complicated. After installing XviD-1.0-Beta2-05122003.exe, Windows Media Player 9 will crash no mather what *.avi I'll try playing. I've got ffdshow, tried all settings for XviD codec there (libavcodec, disabled and XviD), doesn't work...
I've also installed the XviD directshow-filter XviD-Dec-1.0-preBeta3.exe, with no success...

It was only WMP9 which crashed after the install... all other players, like Media Player Classic and so on works... But anyway, it would be nice to have WMP9 working with XviD beta 2++ as well... and it's not only me who has this problem, the excact same problem appeared with a friend of mine. He installed first WMP9 and then DivX 5.1 and then XviD beta2, and now nothing works on WMP9... and this was on a newly formatted comp....

And yes, I'm running Windows XP Pro...

Any help would be appreciated :)

(and please, I know WMP9 is a crappy player etc, but it should work nonetheless... don't want the tip "just use Media Player Classic then, whiner!" etc...)

ermannob
18th December 2003, 13:55
Also my WMP9 has started to crash every time I launch a file. Also if it's a WMV!
Anyway I'm not very very very sure it started when I installed XviD 1.0 beta.

olnima
18th December 2003, 14:20
Try mediaplayerclassic. It's much better and by disabling the avi-splitter You won't have that problem any longer.

Olnima

hykosphy
18th December 2003, 19:31
Originally posted by olnima
Try mediaplayerclassic. It's much better and by disabling the avi-splitter You won't have that problem any longer.

Olnima

What avi-splitter?
And no offense, but the whole point with the thread was getting WMP to work, I know that Media Player Classic works....

fisix
18th December 2003, 22:44
see my thread a couple places below yours. the decoder has an issue with wmp9. there won't be a fix till the decoder is fixed, and i can't tell if anyone is working on that particular part of xvid.

-fiz

DevilsChild
18th December 2003, 23:05
No good.