I decided earlier that I'd uninstall all my standalone codecs and just use ffdshow to decode/encode audio and video. So I uninstalled AC3Filter, Xvid, x264, and a few others, and installed ffdshow (build from 10-20-2006). Set it up using the guide on htpcdigest.com (basically, set everything to libavcodec and raw video to "all supported"), and tried to play an Xvid file. It plays, but the color is wonky and blocks of video overlap, just like when I didn't have the Xvid codec installed. I opened up my files in GSpot to see if it even saw an Xvid codec, but no dice. Am I using a bad version of ffdshow? If so, which build do you guys recommend? Am I doing anything wrong in settings? Can't for the life of me figure it out after 30 minutes googling it. Thanks for any help!
"just like when I didn't have the XviD codec installed. " Perhaps your player has simply gone back to whatever decoder you were previously using rather than the newly installed ffdshow. Any decent player will show you what filters are being used. Otherwise ffdshow's default setting is to have a systray icon, so if it is in use, you should see it. Few things. x264 encoding was removed from ffdshow a while back. Certainly the build you installed (wouldn't recommend encoding via VfW anyway). ffdshow can't encode via XviD unless XviD is installed. You still have libavcodec MPEG-4 though. You only need to set ffdshow to handle raw video if you want it to post process streams which it can't decode. Probably best to start with basically no filtering enabled rather than copying some elaborate setup from a htpc site.
Turns out xvid works in everything but windows media player. Have tried it in mplayer, but am currently using VLC. Gonna go in and simplify my ffdshow setup a bit and see what happens. Thanks.
Well both mplayer and VLC use internal decoders. Having ffdshow installed or not should make no difference to them.
I just installed Koeppi's Xvid codec and tried to play something in WMP. Still get the same garbled video. Went in and changed the ffdshow settings to use xvid instead of libavcodec, same garbling. Disabled xvid in ffdshow, same thing. Gspot render gives me the following (currently have xvid disabled in ffdshow): (S) --> AVI Splitter --> XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder --> ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder --> (R) Suggestions?
Well above you are using XviD to decode, followed by ffdshow since you must still have it set to handle raw video. Try with just XviD.
Strange. I uninstalled it earlier so I could watch some stuff whilst I waited for an answer - just reinstalled, set xvid to disabled and raw video to all supported (I had used this setting before and had issues), and now everything works. Still getting xvid -> ff, but all my xvid files play perfectly in WMP. Thanks for being patient with me... looks like I'm good!
