Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

you need to download an xvid or divx codec.

divx is now the defacto standard for distributing video files on the internet giving the best balance of quality and size (like what mp3 did to audio).

but like mp3 big companies are stupidly ignoring it ecause they have vested interests in other inferior codecs.

strange that vlc wouldn't play it though.

Instead of delving into conspiracy theories and how ubergeek you are with your defacto standards. Gah, everyone knows about divx and xvid. Just test the video, or at least read this.

The video doesn't work on mplayer on linux or vlc on linux. It is NOT xvid or divx.

Here are the results of idmedia

ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
ID_FILENAME=black_wed_montage_2.avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=FMP4
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=576504
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=640
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=1000.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=mad
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=80
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=224000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=212

turns out that divx xvid and FMP4 are all implementations of the same standard MPEG-4/AVI

now the streams are actually compatible but most players are geared towards certain 4 characters ID strings that say DIVX or XVID or DVX5 etc.

so if one manually changes the FMP4 string to XVID it just works without changing the video stream.

anyway updated the files with the proper string now.

it works on mplayer here, it is generated by mencoder and I used the xvid command line option.

but you are right end result is not xvid, wtf??!!!

anyway will try to recode it and see.