DivX ;-) MPEG-4 Audio Compressor (WMA) Installer
Version 4.02 for Audio Compression Manager
For Windows NT & 9x (2k tested)
By Ico on 21.03.2002



1. INTRODUCTION

If you are using a DivX codec 4 or later for playing DivX 3 contents and you do not have the
DivX 3.11 Alpha codec installed this is a tool that you might need. Some movies are created
with WMA sound format which is unrecognizable by the mp3 codecs of DivX versions higher than
3. In such cases your player starts searching the net for the appropriate codec and never
finds it because there is no such available for download. The only available appropriate
DivX audio codec comes with the DivX 3.11 alpha codec installation pack (other repacks also)
- DivXa32.acm. So now you've got an unique DivX 3.11 Alpha repack that will install only the
missing audio decompressor, will add an item in your audio compression manager (for win 9x -
control panel / multimedia / devices / audio compression codecs) and also an option for
uninstallation from control panel (add/remove programs). This is an advantage over installing
the whole of the DivX 3.11 pack because it installs its older video codecs which you do not
need and it overwrites the registry and uninstall information which makes it impossible to
uninstall DivX 3.11 Alpha and the other later DivX codec version you might have separately.
This may cause some undesired behaviour of your codecs and players. All you need to do for
hearing the WMA sound of your movie is to install this pack. 

I hope you will enjoy it!


2. SOME EXTRACTS FROM FORUMS
concerning the same problem (which is no longer a problem!)

- You may not hear any sound when playing a movie with Windows Media Player if the DivX 3.11
codec is not installed. The reason is that the WMA codec (DivX Audio - DivXa32.acm) comes
with the DivX 3.11 codec.

- The divx you are trying to play must be encoded with the Divx audio codec WMA (DivXa32.acm),
this codec comes with the divx 3.11a Codec, but most of the good encoded movies will be in
the mp3 format.