black screen with "divx video" at logo only

Hi dudes, whenever I download a divx file with kazaa i can only watch a black screen with “divx video” logo watermark at the bottom corner of the screen. The codecs are appeared to be divx5 (checked with avicodec) and they say SVCD rip at file info while downloading.. Tried several codecs, anyone knows how to get rid of this and watch a movie instead of black screen with logo?

I’ve seen that problem before, and I can only speculate the movie is a fake. If I was a conspiracy theorist I’d add it might be a ploy by the movie industry, just like those fake mp3’s or movies with fourcc of '0'. Needless to say people who spent hours, sometimes days downloading these are less than happy with the result. You could always try to fiddle with different codecs (xvid, divx 5, 3ivx - installing only one at the time), and different players (real player, avipreview, media player classic, videolan, virtualdub).
I should add - there’s also the case of stupid encoders. If you do multiple-pass-encoding with divx (which means you’re scanning the file more than once to find the best way to encode it), on the first pass, you get a black screen as an output file (it’s the first pass and it never encodes), but some people are stupid and don’t bother to do additional passes!!! (n-passes, they’re called.) The end movie is therefore black. I tend to discount this theory because who’d be stupid enough to distribute a movie without checking that it plays first? I leave the rest to speculation.