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Originally Posted by BSPeter

Further: are you sure its DivX decoder you're using? Though it indeed cannot be accessed though Options > Preferences > Video, you should be able to reacht it (with movie loaded) through Options > Filters.

Exactly, it's available under Options -> filters while not under preferences.

If it appears you're perhaps using ffdshow; perhaps it's an older version?
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=53761

Negative, no ffdshow installed at all.