I recently downloaded some movie clips of Xenosaga: Episode II (a videogame). I've also recently installed the DivX player. Everything was playing rather fine yesterday, however, I come on this morning, attempt to play a Xenosaga file in DivX, it says "illegal operation" then closes. I get it back up, try to load the file again, an error message pops up, saying that there's likely something wrong with my DirectX file. Well, I know it's not the DirectX, because I re-installed the latest version, and it still says the same thing.

I even tried playing the files in winamp movie mode, however, after it was finished, it left a permenant marking on my desktop where the winamp equalizer should have been. Basically, the spot shows whatever comes in front of it. For example, if I closed the internet, this webpage would be seen in the spot. That little spot doesn't go away until I reboot or shut down my PC.

So, there are two problems right there. I'd like to fix the DivX problem mainly. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

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Winamp movie mode is a memory hog and is clearly NOT the choice to play videos. I'd prefer using WMP, DivX, Quick Time, Real Player depending on the file to be played.

There could be a problem with the file itself. try downloading it again. Look at the download page if a particular s/w to play the file is suggested. Now a days site owners do, considering the number of codecs and encoding s/w that are available...not just players !

Good Luck and Happy Computing,

Kailas Shastry,
India.