weird xvid porblems

I've just started attempting to encode w/ xvid. i have the XviD-27072002-1 build installed. however, i recently installed the XviD-04102002-1 build, and the movies i have encoded with the previous build comes up as garbled video. all i see is different colored blocks and what not. when i reinstall the earlier build, the reverse happens where everything i coded in the new build is just garbled video. Im gonna assume its something on my end...any ideas? thanks in advance

so my guess would be that the stuff i encoded using the 27022002 build would not be viewable unless i take out my current build, and reinstall the earlier build, and vice versa? and i grabbed the 04102002 build which is the latest binary...should i be working w/ the unstable binaries? thanks mango :)

Unfortunately, my memory doesn't go back till the 27072002-build. :) But I do have some encodings from back then that all are watchable with current builds. Perhaps it's a good idea - if you use unstable builds - to always follow their discussion on this forum. Also, you can use ffdshow and mp4player to check the MPEG4-standard complicance of the video produced with an XviD build.