by kaitoujuliet » Fri Nov 22, 2002 11:43 am
Well, a combination of your suggestions seems to have done the trick. I managed to uninstall my previous DivX files using the uninstaller attached to my virus checker. I then exited the virus checker and ran msconfig, a nice utility which I didn't know about before. I decided to install the Nimo pack, since it had both wma2 and DivX 3.11a. After installing that, I re-installed the DivX 5 bundle so that I could get my DivX Player Alpha 2.0 back. The formerly-soundless files now play with sound on Windows Media Player and Real Player, although they are still soundless in Divx Player. Yay!
BUT ...
My Windows Media Player is now useless for anything except .wmv or .amf files. One problem developed back when it tried to download the codec while online, and the other one developed after I went through the process described above.
The earlier problem is with .mpg files. No matter what their original size, WMP tries to display them as 720 x 480, and both the video and the music are very choppy. I have had this choppiness problem before when playing files originally sized at 720 x 480, but it used to play 360 x 240 files smoothly at the original size. I tried setting "Zoom" to 50% and that reset the video size but didn't fix the choppiness.
The newer problem is with .avi files. I think all the ones I tried are DivX encoded. Newer DivX files, which used to play on WMP with no trouble, now appear at 720 x 480 *and* upside-down and backwards! The older files are right-side up, but they are similarly large and the sound is out of sync with the video. (I know the sync problem is a common one with DivX and WMP, but I thought I'd mention it.)
The newer DivX files play successfully through DivX Player Alpha 2.0, but the older ones are still soundless through that player.
All the files seem to play successfully through RealPlayer, but that is not my first choice for viewing because of the obnoxious startup sequence.
So, does anyone have suggestions for fixing this new situation? I really appreciate all the help you people have given me so far, and I'm sorry to have to keep coming back and asking for more!
Juliet