Simple Video Problem....... Please Help!

[~SMVP~]

I know you've probably heard it all before, and so have I, but still haven't
found a solution. Videos appear to play, and it seems like the system thinks
they are as audio works, but all i get is a black screen for all my videos. I
tried downloading Divx and it made no difference. I am only using one monitor
but the thing is, they just stopped working one day, when the PC froze and i
reset it while playing a video..... Can anyone help?

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Well we've found out from this that these AVIs are not encoded in Divx. But
we haven't found out what they are encoded with.

So download and install G-Spot codec identifier and ask it.
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

It's probably Xvid, but let G-Spot give you the definitive answer.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"~SMVP~" > wrote in message
...
>I know you've probably heard it all before, and so have I, but still
>haven't
> found a solution. Videos appear to play, and it seems like the system
> thinks
> they are as audio works, but all i get is a black screen for all my
> videos. I
> tried downloading Divx and it made no difference. I am only using one
> monitor
> but the thing is, they just stopped working one day, when the PC froze and
> i
> reset it while playing a video..... Can anyone help?

[Evolution54]

I know you've probably heard it all before, and so have I, but still haven't
found a solution. Videos appear to play, and it seems like the system thinks
they are as audio works, but all i get is a black screen for all my videos. I
tried downloading Divx and it made no difference. I am only using one monitor
but the thing is, they just stopped working one day, when the PC froze and i
reset it while playing a video..... Can anyone help?

Try these players:

http://www.videolan.org/

http://www.bsplayer.org/

Good luck