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  1. I've encountered a problem recently when playing back (or encoding to mp4) Huffyuv-compressed AVI's, using various media players, VirtualDub and Avanti FFMPEG encoder, both on my Windows XP machine and Windows 8.1 laptop. Here is a screenshot of the playback problem when using MPC-HC:

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    I was encountering the problem in all media players I tried and in VirtualDub, but then I added the huffyuv DLL to my sysWOW64 directory in Windows 8.1, and now playback is fine in VirtualDub:

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    but playback is still problematic (the same as before) in MPC-HC or when feeding the video to VirtualDub via Avisynth or when encoding using Avanti FFMPEG encoder (I don't know if it works in any other media players/encoders either because I haven't tried it.

    The strange thing is, I think Huffyuv playback was working before on both machines until recently, but I may have been using a copy from a different website before. The one I'm using now is from the author's website.
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  2. there is few HuffYUV implementations... this codec is not standardized - i would advise to use same implementation on encode and decode.
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  3. What are the dimensions of your clip ? In vdub , file=>file information , or use mediainfo . Non mod4 dimensions can cause issue like this on playback with certain renderers

    What does playback in VLC look like ?

    MPCHC uses directshow, VLC uses VFW - these are different systems and use different decoders
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  4. To the other poster, I am using the same implementation of Huffyuv for both compression and decompression.

    Originally Posted by poisondeathray View Post
    What are the dimensions of your clip ? In vdub , file=>file information , or use mediainfo . Non mod4 dimensions can cause issue like this on playback with certain renderers

    What does playback in VLC look like ?

    MPCHC uses directshow, VLC uses VFW - these are different systems and use different decoders
    I tried it in VLC and here's how it looked:

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    BTW I was using a non-standard resolution of 854 x 480 on the video, but when I changed it to mod4 640 x 360 it worked fine upon playback in MPC-HC at least, and was in color in VLC and not slanted like before, although it still had a similar "overblown" look in VLC like the image above for whatever reason. I'm not planning to worry about that for the time being however because I just need my huffyuv files to work in Avanti FFMPEG encoder in order to convert them to mp4, which I'll test later. Thank you poisondeathray, for the mod4 info.
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  5. It looks like some of the huffyuv decoders don't like mod2 frame widths. Stick with mod4. Reencode your mod2 videos as mod4.
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  6. Just a clarificaton, I wrote "VLC uses VFW" => that's wrong . VLC uses libavcodec , I meant to say that it's vdub that uses VFW system

    VLC is based on ffmpeg/libav as well. So if VLC has problems, there is a strong chance ffmpeg/avanti will have problems
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  7. Originally Posted by poisondeathray View Post
    Just a clarificaton, I wrote "VLC uses VFW" => that's wrong . VLC uses libavcodec , I meant to say that it's vdub that uses VFW system

    VLC is based on ffmpeg/libav as well. So if VLC has problems, there is a strong chance ffmpeg/avanti will have problems
    Thanks for the info. For some reason it worked fine in Avanti when I encoded a small clip from it.
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