How to play XviD in Vista

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acaurora

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Just wanted to let everybody know, if there is no thread already, how to play XviD files after I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure it out -

the EASY way:

Download VLC Portable. It will automatically force Vista to go into Vista Basic so that you can play it. After you close VLC Portable, it switches back.

the OTHER way:

Enable Aero Basic and then use any player of your choice (Mine is BSPlayer because I've used it for so long) :

1. Go to Control Panel -> Personalization
2. Click Window Color/Appearance
3. Click 'Open Classic ...'
4. Change the Color Scheme to Windows Vista Basic
5. Play your video file as usual
6. When you are done, change it back to Windows Vista Aero.

I probably will end up using VLC Portable, because those steps are a little annoying, and I do want the Aero effects =[... hopefully some of the software companies out there will come up with a fix like this... I miss BSPlayer already =[
 
Have you tried the Vista Codec Package or FFDShow? I think both of them play XviD files just fine.

EDIT: I know that the Vista Codec Package works, because that's what I've installed on my machine (Vista Ultimate x64) and it can play the XviD sample on their website just fine without disabling Aero. This is all through WMP 11, too.
 
haha .. i installed the ccc codec pack (because it seemed to work best for vista) and i can play xvids fine.
 
I had origionally posted this for people who do not use WMP11. I personally dont like WMP11. Dont get me wrong its great for certain people, just not me. With just the XviD codec installed, any video will play in WMP11 with Aero still enabled. I was trying to show people how to play XviD videos in players of their choice.
 
Might I suggest downloading VLC? It's an awesome open source player that should be able to handle anything you through at it.
 
Just a quick question on the Combined Community Codec Pack- does it work with WMP11 x64? I'd like to run WMP in 64-bit, but I suppose I could go through and kick it down to 32 bit again. >_<

I'm using Vista Ultimate.
 
I never really had a problem playing xvid movies, what I had was more of an annoyance. Vista would disable aero when playing an xvid with VLC. So i just installed Media Player Classic and Xvid 1.1, now all is smooth and it keeps aero from being disabled when a movie is playing (even if it's playing fullscreen and i can't see the desktop.. lol)
 
sky.strife said:
Just a quick question on the Combined Community Codec Pack- does it work with WMP11 x64? I'd like to run WMP in 64-bit, but I suppose I could go through and kick it down to 32 bit again. >_<

I'm using Vista Ultimate.
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i have vista 64 also......works fine
 
All it takes is a CCCP install, and everything worked fine for me in Vista Home Premium 32-bit.
 
mpc and ffdshow is a good alternative to the cccp codec package if you dont want to download something with too many extras.
 
Is it really gonna hurt to have to use a few more mb to have to never ever have to find a single codec ever again ? :confused:

Anyway there a codec i'd prefer to enable instead of the one cccp and that is coreavc :x well when they release the compatible codec for it anyway... So i can disable the one in cccp that uses it, and use coreavc :] and all the other cccp codecs work along side for other stuff. Much cleaner to uninstall and update to the newest cccp, rather than k-lite codec pack >->;; *stare
 
Coreavc is good if your pc isn't strong enough to decode some h264 files, but if your pc is strong (subjective) the PQ off of FFShow is better (ie less blocks).
 
Oh i didn't know the 2nd part :] o well im covered then.

my rig

e6600 intel dual core cpu

nvidia 8800 gts graphics card

asus P5N32-E SLI i608 chipset motherboard

2 gig corsair ddr 2

1 terabyte of hard drive space

vista 64 bit ultimate


However you are trying to play 1080p H.264 video, which is very processor intensive. I suggest you get the latest CCCP beta and reinstall and Reset to defaults. This beta CCCP has slightly faster H.264 decoding as well as some special Vista fixes. If playing the file is still sluggish, there are no magic settings to make it run better. It is just because it is a very HQ file and your system cannot keep up with it using ffdshow. The only other alternative is to use CoreAVC.
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The person said the new one is like 20 &#37; faster then the official non beta cccp release, whereas coreavc is 20 % faster than the new beta one :x hm.
 
I don't see how you guys put up with this shit. Aero being disabled on using anything but windows media player. That would piss me off if my OS did something like that. I haven't heard one good thing about Vista.
 
slithy said:
I don't see how you guys put up with this shit. Aero being disabled on using anything but windows media player. That would piss me off if my OS did something like that. I haven't heard one good thing about Vista.
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I use media player classic and aero never disables. I didn't even know this was supposed to be an issue.
 
I'm confused. I play xvid videos all the time in Vista and never seen any changes to the interface. I use the standard VLC player (not sure what portable is) and the Xvid codec from Doom9. I didn't have to do anything special that I didn't do in XP to make it work. The only issue I did have initially was I had to tell VLC to use the correct codec that I installed in the options, because the default windows one was making it play REALLY dark.

I'm running Vista Ultimate if that matters.
 
slithy said:
I don't see how you guys put up with this shit. Aero being disabled on using anything but windows media player. That would piss me off if my OS did something like that. I haven't heard one good thing about Vista.
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Hm when i play my anime on media player classic, a pop up once said it was closing some feature down because mpc didn't really like it so that it would be compatible.

After i'm done watching the video i close it, and the screen flashes once and the feature is turned back on.

It's not a big deal :/

Whatever that was being turned off, i wouldnt be watching it at the same time as the video now would i :D
 
VLC Gives me no video when I tried using it. Any idea why? Every other player including WMP works though... but hard freezes up my system after certain amount of times
 
To me it sounds like Microsoft is trying to lock you into WMP by allowing it to be the only media player that doesn't disable aero during playback...while I haven't tested this myself (I have no intention of ever using Vista on one of my personal machines), I believe it's true.
 
What the heck are you guys talking about? I use VLC 0.8.6 in Vista and have NEVER seen it disable Aero when I play movies. I open movies and there is not a flicker at all.
 
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