Originally Posted by popper

i find that rather odd!, playing Xvid/DivX files depends on having the codec installed, if your app isnt playing these files than you have not installed the right codec.

try this Xvid codec alongside the divx codec, and see if that helps
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
http://www.divx.com/
http://www.xvid.org/

as already said, you can also use other players such as VLC, MPC, Mplayer.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303

http://www.bsplayer.com/
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

installing Haali Media Splitter is also a good thing to do
http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=80762&page=12

http://search.ntlworld.com/ntlworld/...r&cr=&x=27&y=7