i av (.avi) issues.

[fynnla]

G'day. I have two problems today.

1. In Media Player most of my .avi files are now playing with a green border around the bottom and right hand side of the video. Has only just started - I checked with files I have played before with no issue and most of them are doing the same.

2. Winamp will not play them properly at all - I get sound from the start but the picture is frozen on whatever is the first frame, which for most of them is a black screen. If I move the scroll bar across to skip a bit the timer displays the new time point but the whole thing freezes - no sound and still no video. It plays .mp4 sound complete with skipping through points but does not load ANY video - just the nullsoft logo on the screen.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the latest winamp version but haven't bothered with WMP as yet. I have been using both of these programs for some time with no problems. It's only in the last few days that it has changed and I can't think of anything I have done that may have caused it.

Cheers

PS - I just played the .mp4 file in WMP and it worked fine except the quality was really grainy. Positive it wasn't like that last time I watched that one.

[fynnla]

As an adendum - Nero Showtime was doing the same green line thing but only a fraction of the width of WMP. I uninstalled and reinstalled Nero and now it is corrected in that program. WMP and Winamp are the same as before.

[oracle128]

Do the AVI files use the same codec, eg DivX? You can find out using GSpot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/index.htm). Whatever codec they're using, try downloading and reinstalling that codec.

[fynnla]

I had all the codecs installed (divx dx50). These were all files I had watched before with no problems.

It was suggested on another forum that I download and install ffdshow... It worked! All is good with the world.

[oracle128]

Yep, that would be the codec problem I was headed towards.

[fynnla]

I understand where you were heading, but I had played all of the files previously with no problems and gspot told me that everything was installed fine. I don't know what difference ffdshow made but apparently my players like it better.

Cheers.

[oracle128]

FFDshow is a set of codecs. Your media players are now using it, instead of whatever (corrupt) one you were using before.