Video formats..?

[Profit Seeker]

I wonder if anyone can help.
I'm trying to play a poker clip but on windows media player the sound is there but only swirling colour patterns are visible, on Realplayer it says software required isnt available, it's a shame mediaplayer doesnt automatically connect like realplayer to find the required codec. The title of the clip ends .Xvid-SC. Any ideas? Thanks

Just noticed it's an avi, but my media player plays avi's so does realpayer. Strange

[zomby]

not sure about .Xvid-SC extensions..but .Xvid-CS extensions require a codec installed called Nimo v5 - no idea where you can get it from though.

[Win2Win]

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Nimo_Codec_Pack.htm

[Profit Seeker]

Thanks, I'm going to try the latest quicktime first, hopefully that will have the latest guff with it.

[Win2Win]

It won't play DivX, as it's technically for pirate vidoes

[Profit Seeker]

Quicktime made no difference, nimco turned the swirly colours into a green screen with blotches all over it and turned my usual videos upside down so that's gone. Hmm must just be a dodgey torrent!

[Pablo_Roberto]

Use FFDShow (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow) for your codecs, has everything you need in the way of video codecs, and the only audio codec that it doesn't cover really is AC3, which you can find pretty easily. Also GSpot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/) can help identify the codecs that a video file is trying to use. Hope that helps mate :)

[Sandman]

AVI is just a file extension that is widely used for Video Files.
I would recommend that you try to use VLC Player from

http://www.videolan.org/

Once you have installed this, you should be able to view using Media Player or Winamp, as the correct codecs will have been installed by VLC Player.