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2004-06-10, 05:54 | Link #4 |
Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
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Well the question should be like this... "Where do I get codecs that actually work with vfw?" (video for windows, old 16bit media codec container/framework).
Nearly all the newer codecs use direct show the 32bit version of vfw, so I doubt you'll find many codecs that will work with your video/animation editing tool. Or you need to preconvert the file in a format which can be read with both direct show and vfw codecs/filters (i.e. indeo 4/plain true color).
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2004-06-10, 07:22 | Link #5 |
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I don't know if it is relevant, but VirtualDub refused to open files when I had ffdshow installed only. Installing Xvid (Koepi's Build) solved the problem. Why don't you try that?
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2004-06-10, 08:58 | Link #6 | |
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I guess I should have been a bit more elaborate in my first post: right now most "real" codecs for windows are vfw. Ffdshow is not a codec per se, it's a directshow decoding filter (newer versions also have a vfw encoding module) Random vfw codecs: Xvid Divx Windows Media 9 |
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2004-06-10, 11:20 | Link #7 |
Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
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Hm yes I should have been better informed and a bit more exact in the formulation, so they still implement vfw, which is core 16 bit, means all what the framework/API supports is optimized for 16 bit processing (which is not necessarily bad). Bad is that Microsoft does not support vfw any longer (that was what I read in some article), but there are still many tools in use which use vfw (like for example Vdub). Afaik many codecs have/had strange bugs when used in vfw mode instead of direct show (i.e. blocking and stuff). I assume newer releases of codecs support vfw better now.
In the case of too many FourCC (4 character codes) = too many registered codecs or just one codec which doesn't work, the vfw will only load a part of all the codecs, to erase the malicious codec might solve the problem then. I had this on my PC too, so I deleted some unnecessary codecs in the registry and it got better. However, I prefer the direct show codec(part) instead of the vfw codec(part)... (except Xvid -koepi- <= equal)
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