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Video codec problem?

thai1 posted 2008 Aug 30 02:38

Hi guys, I have 2 XP systems with one happily producing error-free passes of FAVC. The other produces many small frame errors in the second pass and can fail completely if I use both CPU cores. I suspect DiVX as the good system doesn't use it. On checking the codecs I saw that the good one is using lvcodec2.dll, while the problem one is using i420vfw.dll, as well as having additionally mpg4c32.dll, ACDV.dll and DivX.dll. All other codecs are the same. I changed the registry entry for VIDC.I420 from i420vfw.dll to lvcodec2.dll so as to be the same. If I uninstal the DivX package I get the missing codec error..... I don't understand how the good system works without DivX installed! Any ideas as to what the good sytem is using - I am missing something here! :roll:

guns1inger posted 2008 Aug 30 02:43

Xvid or FFDShow will decode Divx. I suspect you have FFDShow on the PC that is encoding happily.

thai1 posted 2008 Aug 30 05:54

Thanks, I noticed that I had downloaded FFDShow at the same time as DiVX on the problem PC, but was not installed. Just tested with FFDShow installed and all is OK. :D

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