XVid video format?

[Radiant]

Hi there!

Is anyone familiar with the XVID video format? It's some kind of open-source third party codec for DIVX. However, I am unable to get it to work on my computer (at least, I only get sound, no video). Does someone here have experience with that, or maybe a tool to convert it to, say, MPEG?

[scotch]

You should install a codec pack that has codecs for xvid video, I installed the Matroska pack and any avi I've wanted to play has played, there are others though.

[ilSilente]

What's the problem exactly?
Anyway, xvid.org just provide codec's source. If you need the installation file, use the last stable Koepi build, here: http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml

[Snarky]

Or you could get ffdshow, which also displays XviD movies. And is awesome.

[ildu]

ffdshow should work, as snarky mentioned.

[auhsor]

Or you could get ffdshow, which also displays XviD movies. And is awesome.

I agree with this. The ffdshow codec works great for me.

[Radiant]

Problem is I installed the XVID codec and it didn't work. I'll see if ffdshow helps, though.

[scotch]

ffdshow is what my codec pack was based on, it's good.  If that doesn't work you should try using the VideoLAN player, it doesn't require external codecs and supports xvid.

[Renal Shutdown]

Scotch is right.  If it won't work with VLC player (www.videolan.org) then there's either something wrong with the file, or something wrong with the time-space continuum.

..Altho it's probly the file.

[Radiant]

(oh btw this was in adventure-related T&C since it's an AVI I intend to include in an AGS game... )

FFDshow works; apparently it's better than the official XVID codec. Thanks folks!