strange behaviour with avi files

I’m having some problems with some .avi video files. I normally play them with Windows Media Player but afterwards I moved them onto a removable hard drive(and this may or may not be a contributing factor?). Now, the audio works fine but the video has chunks of missing pixels and doesn’t refresh the screen often. It works on Nero ShowTime, but playing them with realplayer gives the same pixelated result.. I am wondering whether it is something to do with the codec. Thanks a lot for your help!

I’m having similar trouble. I play my files in Quicktime, and some of my avi files are all pixely and slow to refresh, too. I only have the divx 5.component downloaded, but the movie’s format is divx 5.0. Am I missing something here?

strange,i do the same thing about every week,got loads of avi files wich i transfer to external hard drives,now i have transfert almost 500Gig onto 2 external drives and never had this kinda problem,i do not use Quicktime,no realplayer,rarely windowsmediaplayer,i use zoomplayer,you don’t need quicktime player to watch mov files like most ppl think you can download the codec and play them with zoomplayer and this never gave any probs,i had problems like this years ago ,just try new things and you’ll find the solution,if yer interested in zoomplayer you can look at the website where he explains how to have a clean start ,just try stuff and you’ll learn

Thanks for the reply. The files play on wmp and realplayer after I downloaded the DivX codec for it(I forgot which version tho ^^.

It’s funny because I’m getting another problem with the files where it does not run on avi or realplayer and the wmp/rp shuts down. I’m not entirely sure that it is the same problem as http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/5449p1.html
but when I run the files on neroplayer, again it works. I’m wondering whether the codec is the problem once again? I’m new to this, so I do not know anything about codecs. Which codec and which version do I download? And is there a way to check which codec I am using in wmp/rp or which is needed for a particular file?(does it work that way?) I played the file on VIrtualDub, and it displays this error:
VideoSourceAVI[ICDecompress] error: unspecified error (-100)

thanks for your help!

mh,i’m sorry but i can’t help much here ,what players do you all use and what codecs have you already installed ,to ppl who have all sorts of this kinda problems i understand and you should try all sorts of stuff first to learn even if it to totaly ruins your comp,you’ll never forget that way ;p...but make back-ups first,i advice if you are not sure what you have done previously with codecs etc to make a clean start,this might help you : http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
even if you don’t wanne use zoomplayer it’s interesting,to many other about what extentions can be played with what player
Zoom Player is capable of playing all common media formats and quite a few of the not so common, including:
AVI, Matroska (MKV), QuickTime (MOV), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Flash (SWF), RealMedia (RA/RM/RMVB/RAM), Windows Media Format (ASF/WMV/WMA including DRM with WMV Professional version), OGG Movie (OGM), MPEG1 (MPG/VCD), MPEG2 (MPG/SVCD/VO, MPEG4 (DIVX/XVID/ISO), VP3-VP6, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3), Vorbis Audio (OGG), Dolby Digital (AC3), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), MusePack Audio (MPC), FLAC Audio (FLAC), OptimFROG Audio, Monkey Audio (APE), True Audio (TTU), Wave Audio (WAV), CD-Audio.
i’m pretty sure not many players can put that on their list
have fun