Worsleys Road condition -Chch

[Transalper]

That damn video wont run on my computer! Do I have to download the player? I'm getting too much stuff on it now! John.

If you do not have the right codec installed then you might hear the video but get no picture or get a pattern as if you are playing a music audio file.
To get the picture you need to download and install the DivX codec as most of my videos are encoded with.
You can get it from the DivX download page (it's about 15mb)... or as paturoa says videolan (a 7.9mb download) is a very good player, especially if other players are giving a bumpy playback, i then use videolan.
However i'm not totally sure wether if you get videolan alone then you may still need to install the divX codec anyway.
Looking at some of the videolan documentation it does sound like it includes the codec so videolan would be all you need and at 7.9mb it's the better option.

I've been using the free VLC http://www.videolan.org/ and I haven't found a vid yet that it wont play.

I think it's a great player but when i installed it on a fresh operating system i still needed some codecs to complete the set. Are you sure that the divx codec wasn't installed by a different pack you might have installed earlier? It's been updated several times since i tested the package on a system i was sure had no extra codecs installed.

[paturoa]

I just built a couple of new PCs and unless the Divx codec is in the latest XP service pack (which I doubt) then it must be imbedded.

[Transalper]

That's all good then, i too would recomend oldrider (and anyone else with problems) just downloads videolan then try playing the video again. And remember to zoom playback size to get a decent look at it. To do that in most player it's a double click inside the picture while playing, or choose view in the players menu and then zoom, or a right click to get the context menu and find something like view or zoom.
The whole point of DivX is to be a small file size and still give a very good full screen picture for it. For my videos it seems to need at least 2.2mb per minute of video for best results. I just started encoding with Auto Gordian Knot.