Which is better DIVX or XviD when playing .avi file?

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Originally Posted by sleeplessrevolution

Though, in media player classic it cannot decode AC3 files.

Didn't MPC include its own internal filters, also for AC3?

however the audio quality is not as good as AC3

AC3Filter has advanced normalization functions. They are important because most AC-3 are mastered with low volume and/or very high dynamic range. I am not using ffdshow/liba52 for AC-3 decoding myself.

if BSplayer could only play .OGM files and VLC is very choppy when playing .OGM files.

What about OggDS filter to demux Ogg container? Doesn't it work on your system?

VLC don't have support for dolby digital audio yet.

Dolby Digital means the same as AC-3...

I ended up uninstalling ffdshow [..] without xvid or divx codec and I was surprised to see "all of my xvid and divx video files were running just fine

Any MPEG-4 capable VFW codecs such as older XviD left installed maybe? You can use TaskInfo to see what modules are loaded.