Another vid clip player prob?

[tony draper]

Posted a couple of weeks ago about saving yourtube vid clips to my hard disc,or rathe my inability to do so,anyway given up on Yourtube,I have however discovered Video Google Videoplay which is similar,not only can I watch the clips on the google website but I can download them to my hard disk,however when I click on the downloaded vid clip icon that appears on me desktop I get the message.
VIDS: DIVX Decompressor missing.

Err what does this mean? and if I have summat missing from whense can one obtain it.
I am still running Win 98, not sure which version of media player I got.
Thanks in advance for any help
:confused:

[TheSailor]

Hello,

http://www.videolan.org/
Try this player and report back. It usually will play anything you throw at it. Do you have video hardware acceleration enabled in your video card settings?
If you want..you also able to D/L the free version of DiVX codec and player at:
http://www.DIVX.COM
Hope it's help

Regards.

[tony draper]

Thank you Mr Sailor,downloaded the VCL thing when I was trying to save your tube clips, it didn't work,irt still don't wok :( downloaded the divx one this morning took forty minutes,then it told me it should not be installed on machines with win 98 or win me,hmmm wudda been better had it told me before the download.
Never mind one shall persevere.
Thank you for the help anyway.
:rolleyes:

[maxell]

Try This (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivX_Total_Pack.htm) It might do the job. I use the k-lite mega codec pack on this and so far it plays everything I have downloaded
Max

[ormus55]

im surprised that the vlc media player didnt work, ive used it in the past with win98 and it played everything.

you really need to consider upgrading to XP now.
the problems are only going to get worse for peeps with w98 and w2k.

lots of online applications are demanding newer/faster hw/sw platforms for accessing their media.
take google earth for example.

and of course there is no official support now, for w98 etc...

[g4phil]

This might be an easier page to read:

http://www.divxmovies.com/players/