no video on movie
 

Hi, I'm brand new to this. I just downloaded a full length movie, but when I go to view it in realplayer,I get the audio, but no video at all! The screen is black, when I get one. I can hear the audio, so I know it's there.
Is there any way to retrive the video, or is this a bad file?

I have downloaded a couple other clips, and the video came through just fine on them.

This is most likely a codec problem, not a corruption.

I'd say it's probably DivX that you need.

You can download it for free from www.divx.com


Matt

Yo boots, there are many people who will tell you that Real is beyond crap (count me among them, of course) so my suggestion for the day: don't use it.
Try a free player like VLC or mplayer (click the link for VLC or look in google for player). Both need no additional codecs.
If you want to use, say, WMP (windows media player, eh) you haveta dld the nimo pack that contains most (if not all) of da codex for ya.

Thanks, for the advice. I loaded divx and voila! It works!