green screen

Nick Pav wrote: I NEED SOME HELP!!!!!!!!!!! I keep on getting a green screen everytime i try and watch a video online or a video trailer. I get the audio but no visual, just a green screen. Can someone please email me the answer to this question. nickpav2001@yahoo.com

FrightfoO wrote: What do you mean it didn’t work? Why didn’t it work? What error did you get? I hope you configured 3ivX to decode XviD and DivX video files

I have tried Nimo, Tsunami and stand-alone installers of versions of XviD and DivX and then discovered 3ivX. 3ivX is now the only codec I’ve got installed for decoding MPEG4 video content - both DivX and XviD.

Nimo is not a codec, it’s simply an installer for several different codecs, that are easily found and downloaded from their respective sites:

www.divx.com
www.xvid.org
http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/

Those sites have all the needed things, that’ll help play DivX and XviD content correctly, but I choose 3ivX because you can encode video content yourself using it.

There is no reason to install Nimo. Apart from it containing SPYWARE, it’ll also create problems if you decide to ever re-encode DivX and XviD content to (S)VCD (MPEG1/2 video content).

eddiebobdon: tell me which codecs did you have previously installed, while you were using 3ivX. I would guess it was XviD and what was happening is 3ivX was NOT doing anything. It wasn’t decoding or helping any because the XviD codec you were using was associated with decoding XviD video/picture.

If you installed Nimo while you had an older version of XviD installed - the new version of the XviD codec would’ve taken over the decoding automatically (note: you can download ALL versions, including the STABLE XviD versions from www.xvid.org).

Please be aware that advising someone to use Nimo is frowned upon, if done at well respected forums like www.doom9.org (experts on video encoding), you’ll get spurned for doing so.

Examples:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=9d0b0bcc8587f704143926090790cd4f&threadid=61102&highlight=nimo

Quote:
(Previous poster said they installed Nimo and here’s the response):

“Big mistake. Those packs causes nothing but troubles. If somebody tells you to install some codec pack never believe him/her.

It depends what player and OS you’re using but first install ffdshow.

Go to codecs, enable “use overlay mixer”. This might help

Before you do anything uninstall Nimo Pack. If you’re lucky it didn’t mess up you registery too bad."

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=9d0b0bcc8587f704143926090790cd4f&threadid=60494&highlight=nimo

Quote:
“Looking for a ac3 codec to play back Divx.

already tried nimo codec pack but it mixed everything up and in the end nothing worked.

So is there a single ac3 codec for divx to install ????"

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=9d0b0bcc8587f704143926090790cd4f&threadid=16935&highlight=nimo

Quote:
(Frequently asked question numer 16)

“I only get a green/no picture on playback!
Several reasons are possible: your VGA card can’t cope with the resolution of the video - install the DivX-G400-patch from the download-section.
You installed the Nimo pack? The Nimo Codec Pack is evil[tm]! Happy reformating and fresh-installing your system! After that, stick with ffdshow or the XviD decoders. Just install the codecs you need, and no bloated packs!
FFDShow can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=53761”

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=9d0b0bcc8587f704143926090790cd4f&threadid=64370&highlight=nimo

This one in particular doesn’t need a quote^. They just say in the first post that they just finished cleaning the registry because Nimo messed it up.

In light of the above evidence of Nimo’s errorneous and dangerous tendancies, I would not ever recommend someone to install Nimo because it can certainly mess with your system and doesn’t always work anyway.

3ivX should work in most instances, and if it doesn’t - it WON’T leave left-overs or other things that can mess with a system, causing you to have to have to format.

Sorry for not wanting to have someone install something (e.g. - Nimo) that I know could totally wreck their PC’s configuration/registry.

Karyn wrote: I have had the “Green Screen” problem for soooo long, and thanks to “Wayz'" trick I no longer have this problem. Here’s what Wayz recommended:

“Open the Windows Media Player....go to Options....click performance.......and reduce the video acceleration....

I reduced to the minimum then it worked for me ."

Thanks again Wayz!!!!!!

Karyn wrote: I have had the “Green Screen” problem for soooo long, and thanks to “Wayz'" trick I no longer have this problem. Here’s what Wayz recommended:

“Open the Windows Media Player....go to Options....click performance.......and reduce the video acceleration....

I reduced to the minimum then it worked for me ."

Thanks again Wayz!!!!!!

gonzalo wrote: i have the same problem trying to play some avi files encoded with divx, the only solution i’ve found is to play those files using divx player.