a get a green screen and then...

Helo folks.

I have a x-vid encoded movie here, and when I try to play it (on any player) I get a green screen and the movie has some other green areas on it also.

I have other x-vid movies here, but they all play ok. You could say it's the source of this one, but it plays ok on my frind's computer.

Could you help here?

o.k., you don't want us to have any more information, like decoder, xvid encoder options used etc.

so, i can only advice you to exactly track the green areas and make a log of there movements (adhesive transparencies in front of your screen plus a proper edding pen might do well here). After that call the police. When they arrive show them the picture, so that they can hunt down the evil bastard bug for you. They will be glad to do so.

Ok, sorry for not giving the details , but as I said this is the first time this happens.

Xvid encoder options: N/A, I didn't make this video!

Encoder used: the xvid build which comes in Nimo Codec 5 build 8. Then I also installed the Nic's build.

Players used: WMP, MicroDVD, Playa, Radlight.

OS: Windows 98

'tis a sad thing that people still install Nimo when it should be clear by now how many systems it has fscked up. And then *Radlight*?? The same *evil* player that decided that Ad-Aware was evil and should be uninstalled before use? Why would anyone in their right mind want to use such (sorry the expression) crap?

I can't really see any way to get rid of it other than the standard quot;Format, then reinstallquot;, and then (most importantly) remember this: NEVER INSTALL A CODEC PACK ON IT AGAIN! (sorry for shouting, but this cannot be said too often - there are too many n00bs out there who like lambs to the slaughter install Nimo and then bitch and moan when WMP refuses to play anything MPEG-4)

I recommend that you stick with ffdshow (projects/ffdshow/ - latest alpha has always worked fine for me), ogg directshow implementation and XviD.

If you *really* need to get it working, and formatting is not an option, I suppose you could dig through a list of filters installed, which Windows keeps (of all places) in the Device manager, which I thought was for hardware (MS logic, I guess...), and then manually uninstall what you don't need. Don't count on it working, and it might (read: probably will) even fsck things even more up.