DivX Green and Purple Playback Problems

WhipHubley · 2nd June 2004, 21:17

Hi,

I used to have DivX 5.11 installed which played back all types of DivX just fine.

Then one day I found a Div3 movie which played back all smeared. I decided to install ffdshow and use that to play back Div3 files. And all was well in the world.

But now whenever I play back anything that uses the DivX 5.11 codec, the screen looks like this...

<screen grab was blank, so verbal description follows>
the screen is split horizontally, with the lower half being green.
the upper half is split again - but this time vertically - with a purpley green image of the movie in each half.
<end of screen grab description>

now here's the weird bit. if I pause the movie, move to another window, then move back to the movie, it looks absolutely fine! but as soon as I start playing it again it goes all funny :-(

This occurs in both Windows Media Player and Windows Media Player Classic. It looks absolutely fine in VirtualDub, though.

An example file (as reported by GSpot) is this...

4CC: DX50/divx
Name: DivX 5.0
4 Compatible Codecs Installed: ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder, DivX Decoder Filter, DivX Decoder Filter, XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder
Rendering: AVI Splitter (splitter) --> DivX Decoder Filter (video decoder) --> [VFW: XviD MPEG-4 Codec] (video post-processor) --> Video Renderer (video renderer)

I've uninstalled ffdshow (no change), reinstalled ffdshow and set it to decode divx (which it does, but still looks the same), uninstalled XviD (no change).

The only thing that fixes it is to uninstall DivX. Which I really don't want to do :-(

Has anyone else experienced this? Do you know of any solutions?

I'm sure I saw a little app somewhere on this forum that kind of "cleans up" any uninstalled codecs - can anyone point me to it? I'm hoping that might help?

Thanks!

2nd June 2004, 21:17	#1 \| Link
WhipHubley Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 117	DivX Green and Purple Playback Problems Hi, I used to have DivX 5.11 installed which played back all types of DivX just fine. Then one day I found a Div3 movie which played back all smeared. I decided to install ffdshow and use that to play back Div3 files. And all was well in the world. But now whenever I play back anything that uses the DivX 5.11 codec, the screen looks like this... <screen grab was blank, so verbal description follows> the screen is split horizontally, with the lower half being green. the upper half is split again - but this time vertically - with a purpley green image of the movie in each half. <end of screen grab description> now here's the weird bit. if I pause the movie, move to another window, then move back to the movie, it looks absolutely fine! but as soon as I start playing it again it goes all funny :-( This occurs in both Windows Media Player and Windows Media Player Classic. It looks absolutely fine in VirtualDub, though. An example file (as reported by GSpot) is this... 4CC: DX50/divx Name: DivX 5.0 4 Compatible Codecs Installed: ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder, DivX Decoder Filter, DivX Decoder Filter, XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder Rendering: AVI Splitter (splitter) --> DivX Decoder Filter (video decoder) --> [VFW: XviD MPEG-4 Codec] (video post-processor) --> Video Renderer (video renderer) I've uninstalled ffdshow (no change), reinstalled ffdshow and set it to decode divx (which it does, but still looks the same), uninstalled XviD (no change). The only thing that fixes it is to uninstall DivX. Which I really don't want to do :-( Has anyone else experienced this? Do you know of any solutions? I'm sure I saw a little app somewhere on this forum that kind of "cleans up" any uninstalled codecs - can anyone point me to it? I'm hoping that might help? Thanks!