Error opening SC and SH3 movies!

[Deepak]

I can't play SH3 and Splinter Cell movies I downloaded from ign.com. SC movie is in avi format and SH is in quick time. It says "error downloading codec" (SC) and "could not find compressor" (SH3)? Whats the problem? How do I play them?

 

[Rodéric]

Maybe you need latest DirectX9 media codec, they are hidden somewhere in the microsoft website, maybe they are delivered with the latest media player too.

 

[V3]

quick time, you need the latest player
avi, you need the latest divx.

 

[Deepak]

I have WMP 8.0 (WinXP), could it be that these files are currupted? But why would ign post currupted files?

 

[Phil]

have you tried installing a filter pack, such as the Tsunami filter pack?

 

[V3]

Quick time. you need Quick Time player
Divx, you need to d/l the latest coded or player, here www.divx.com

 

[Phil]

speaking of divx: the newest version (5.x) I believe, chockes on my 2.6 GHz when I blow up the image. I am pretty sure it's somewhat buggy, as when I use a different player with their own 5.x codec, it hardly uses any CPU power at all! It only does so when using the divx codec with the windows media player. Has anyone experienced similar problems?

 

[notAFanB]

same here I just switch over to ffdshow (no this isn't a plug ^^). runs fine now.