need some help with playing xvid avi's...downloaded about 4 diff drivers but no luck...any help would be appreciated

download ffdshow file here,works for me:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

watched the xvid of ghostship with this

I've found ffdshow to be the best codec alongside Windows Media Player. Although the playback still isn't as smooth as on my FreeBSD box with halve the power/mem etc and a crap graphics card. Doesn't say much for Windows if you ask me.

thanks lads but i cant seem to find anything off that site..im new to this can u direct me to a link on the site, do i need a player or a codec

You need a codec: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ffdshow/ffdshow-20020617.exe?download

Try downloading the Nimo codec i put a link in this post http://www.cdrom-guide.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=235250

the codec i have works great.. i got it with a movie off of irc.. if u want i can send it to you.

XviD binaries can be found at:

http://xvid.hopto.org/
http://roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
http://leffe.dnsalias.com/~nic/

You can of course use ffdshow for decoding as stated above, also for decoding, divx, msmpeg4, etc.

ffdshow is the best i have tried so far for decoding xvid (infact for one or two of my movies its the only one that works at all)
heres an easy link to the latest distribution
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ffdshow/ffdshow-20020617.exe?download

That isn't the latest, the latest would be the 2003.01.22 alpha. Anything you download though is likely from the stable builds and therefor would not include any experimental features, it should therefor decode fine with XviD, DivX5.xx, etc.