media player crash when playing xvid movie

When i am trying to play a number of movie xvid files downloaded from the internet the program (windows media player 9.0 , bsplayer, divx player) all crash. What is happening?!? I cannot figure it out because i have a xvid codex and it wont work. Please help!

ignore him/her and please help

nevermind, I figired it out

some idiot is playing around i have no idea how to solve this issue. please help me out here.

Same problem here. I did see in the title is says “xvid-caf.avi” whats the CaF part? this thing even crashs my explore when it tries to preview it.

CAF is the name of whoever encoded it. What program did you use to downoad the AVI file?

You could try this guide on how to fix a corrupted AVI file (however, if the program that you used to download the file has corruption handling, the guide won’t be that useful):

http://www.rita.lt/video_tools/fixing%20bad%20frames%20w%20no%20audio%20loss.html

Also, is FFDShow installed? This can cause crashes if incorrectly configured.

It works for me now, all I had to do was reboot a few times.

Hello,
same broblem for me.
When i play a "...XviD-CaF.avi” file with windowsplayer, bsplayer they crash.
I have try to do wath FrightfoO says but nothing change...
I am quit shure of the source file...
Please help

Same problem for me. I have an Xvid file made by 'CAF' (a supposed DVD rip)and I have tried opening the file with avi-preview, bs player and windows media player. All these programs crash at frame 0. I have tried meddling with the file in Virtual Dub and Virtual Dub Mod, and all the frames don’t load. Virtual dub mod gives me an unkown error (code 100) and suggests that the frame it is at (for all of them) is possibly corrupt. I have the latest Xvid codec and have fixed FFDshow for Xvid (I think I did it right because other Xvid’s play properly). I used bittorrent to download the file and winRAR to extract the AVI. Thanks for any help I get.

I fixed it! I used video toolbox on the file and found that my Xvid sucked. If you are having problems with a caf file go here http://koepi.roeder.goe.net/xvid.shtml and download the fourCC XVid codec. The top one. Enjoy.

I also had the same problem (explorer crashes) when i previewed an XviD movie in explorer. The fix was to get a new version of xvid codec. This is what i got: XviD-1.0-RC4-05042004

from http://koepi.roeder.goe.net/xvid.shtml

uninstall the older xvid and then install the new. works fine afterwards.

big tinks to Jarules !!!!

It works for me 2 now.
Just delete the old xvid and download the new one. After that don’t forget 2 reboot...

I download the codec and the video work but not the sound. Does anyone know whats wrong?

WHere did you guys find that file XviD-1.0-RC4-05042004? I look on the page everywhere but can’t find that file listed.

Any help appreciated

Koepi’s XviD has been upgraded to:
XviD-1.0.1-05062004.exe (617kb)

That version should work fine.

http://koepi.roeder.goe.net/xvid.shtml

thanx FrightfoO ... the new Koepi’s XviD solved my problem, i used Nic’s xvid before.

I still have proplems with Xvid, when im useing new wersion or version from kazaa_codec_pack THIS SHIT STILL CRASH, my friends dont have this problem so maybe this is some problem with my hardware configuration

I have Athlon 2500+ barton
Soltek SL-75FRN2
ati radeon 9700pro
512 ram ddr
hdd maxtor 120GB

WIN XP sp1, sp2 sucks even more than sp1

i have downloaded .avi file and window media playler want XVID codes to see the movie. i can listen the movie but not see. how funny this situation!!!! pls help me.....

It is a driver problem. Some how, Windows media player commit to a wrong file interpretation (stream) and attempt to connect