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[Videotron]

Hi,
I have received a divx movie from a friend who told me he got it from the
internet (emule or similar). When I try to play this movie, I only get the
video and no sound. I have tried Realplayer 10, WMedia player 10 and divx
player 2.5.1.
I am wondering if there is any special codec that I should donwload in order
to get the sound played properly.
thanks for any hint

[Guest]

Download and install a little program that goes by the name of ac3filter.exe

[Broncearse]

If you have a movie and can't seem to get it to play, odds are you have a
conflicting or missing codec. A CODEC (compressor/decompressor) allows you
to play movies and such. To find out exactly what codecs are required to
watch your movie, you can use one or both of two excellent little
utilities:

AVICodec and Gspot. Both AVICodec and GSpot can be used to determine the
codecs required for a movie to play. AVICodec, despite its name has better
MPEG capabilities and thus is reccomended for MPEG files (such as those for
(S)VCDs). GSpot on the otherhand is far more efficient for scanning AVI
files. Both programs offer unique features also, AVICodec allows you to
queue up and entire folder to for checking in addition to providing direct
links to sites where codecs can be downloaded; GSpot allows for 'rendering'
of files (to check to see if the system can actually play the file with the
available codecs and to check for fakes.

AVICodec can be downloaded from http://avicodec.duby.info/ and GSpot can be
downloaded from http://www.headbands.com/gspot/


Here's another one recently found -
YAAI - Yet Another Avi Info
http://yaai.sourceforge.net/

A site I like for downloading codecs is: http://www.free-codecs.com
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