# divx won't work and I'm upset **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 21, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001 "2002-11-21T19:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/1 "2002-11-21T19:35:58Z")
Let’s get the system covered: W2K Pro with sp3 installed 512MB RAM GeForce3 Ti200 128MB DDR Now the problem: All my mpgs are choppy when viewed full screen using any player. None of my .div or .avi movies work in DivX player. I get an error saying (!) Failed to open E:/movies/The Never Ending Story [divx].avi Yes they are / and not \ in this error message. I’ve tried uninstalling the codec and player and reinstalling but nothing is working. Anyone got some insights? ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/2 "2002-11-21T19:37:05Z")
oh yeah, my cpu is AMD 1.2 GHz Duron ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/3 "2002-11-21T19:55:16Z")
Choppiness usually means the machine has too many backround tasks. Kill everything in your system tray that you can and try again. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/4 "2002-11-21T20:44:51Z")
This stinks out loud. Nothing is in the systry. SETI is gone, Norton is gone, AIM is gone, even the volume is gone (but i’m not sure how I did that). Windows task manager says CPU usage is 1-3% at the most. Under Advanced tab for System Properties (R-click on My computer) Perfomance options is set for applications. I even tried it on Background services–no difference. Stupid machines. . . ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/5 "2002-11-21T21:09:18Z")
Also check out task manager (CTRl-ALT-DEL) to see what might be running that perhaps didn’t show up in the system tray. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/6 "2002-11-21T22:06:48Z")
All the other processes can’t be ended b/c I get “access denied” messages. I wonder if DirectX has something to do with it? I ran dxdiag and under Display tab it says: DirectDraw Acceleration Not Available Direct3d Acceleration Enable \*i tried testing this and it says i don’t have enough memory, wtf? AGP Texture Acceleration Not Available ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/7 "2002-11-21T22:20:49Z")
This is really screwy. Do you have problems running any other memory-intensive applications, like games or graphics programs? Is the hard disk being accessed a lot (indicating heavy swap file use)? If it was me, I’d probably reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/8 "2002-11-22T01:20:54Z")
I never have any problems running anything. MPEGs run fine, they just don’t do well in full screen. I’ve reinstalled DX, NVidia drivers, divx, winamp3, bsplayer and still the same problem with all of them! ---
**Author:** ![substatique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@substatique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/substatique)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/9 "2002-11-22T04:15:38Z")
I’ve never managed to get DivX movies to work consistently (including sound) with any program except [this one](http://www.viplay.cjb.net/). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/10 "2002-11-22T04:42:51Z")
**Muldoon** , I don’t use Windows 2000, and this is just a wild-assed guess, but is there a setting that corresponds to the Hardware Acceleration slider in the control panel --\> display --\> advanced settings of W98? ---
**Author:** ![alex\_arg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alex\_arg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alex_arg)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/11 "2002-11-22T05:26:40Z")
divxpro bundle is what you need muldoon. It works great, only problem is when you forward a file with imporperly interleaved audio and video the audio skips ahead. However, Global Divx player automaticaly corrects this, so i recomend installing the codec from dixpro and then Global Divx. Just search for any of these and your engine will come up with a link for download. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/12 "2002-11-22T05:39:37Z")
It sounds like you have some seriously busted system binaries or incipient disk corruption the system is having to handle on on the fly . There is nothing you can really do but re-install fresh. Double check the integrity of the hard drive. Your video should rock even with several background tasks. The only other thing that could really screw you up is if you have Kazaa or some other resource hog loaded in the background or your video did not install right and is running in crippled mode. ---
**Author:** ![Alereon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alereon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alereon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/13 "2002-11-22T05:51:13Z")
This is definately a driver or windows system component failure. I’ve had this problem occur on old windows installs, the only fix was a format and reinstall. Sorry man. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/14 "2002-11-23T04:08:30Z")
Reinstalled w2k and formatted beforehand. Everything works. But now Norton 2002 won’t load to save my life! Oh well, i’ll just get 2003 in a cuople months. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divx-wont-work-and-im-upset/138001/15 "2002-11-23T06:49:24Z")
You may need an updated codex. I was having major problems with one of my RM movies today(just sound, no picture), until I realized that when I re-installed programs to factory condition that I forgot to reinstall codex 4. Once I did it worked fine again. I’m sure if you did a google search you could find a site offering downloads for codexes.