MAC Users - HELP ME PLEASE

[sacrilicious13]

I downloaded a avi file earlier today, and tried to play it in Quicktime. The sound wouldn't play, and I thought maybe it was because I hadn't updated that Divx program that everyone seems to use since like 2003. So I download this and install it. File still won't play audio, and now it plays the video in this weird split screen mode. I figure that the file just hates me and delete it.

Now, I go to watch another avi file, one that I have watched before and know works perfectly. I get audio but the screen is just white. I delete everything labeled "divx," programs and preferences and restart the computer.

Now every avi file I try to play looks like



Does anyone know what the hell I did and how to fix it? I am seriously freaking out here. I'm a vidder. Losing my ability to watch avi files is not something I can live with. Do I need to redownload divx and do something different? I'm desperate.

I'm on an iBook running 10.4.8 and I use Quicktime Pro 7.1.3.

ETA: Fixed. Apparantly the new version of Divx is a giant bucket of shit. I deleted everything with the word "Divx" in it, and then reinstalled the old version. Everything is kosher again. I really did not need my computer to give me a fucking stroke tonight.

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[ellipsisblack.livejournal.com]

Randomly: there have been like 3 cids to "God's Gonna Cut You Down" lately, and I've ben so friggen tempted to comment and go, "dude, this has been done. this has been done BETTER."

Would that be rude? XD

[sacrilicious.livejournal.com]

LOL, I've been tempted to do that myself. There are some awesome vidders in the fandom, but there are some TERRIBLE vidders too. Four thirty second clips stuck together is NOT a vid!