I recently got into video capture and compression. I captured a large vid using Huffyuv2.2.0 codec and then compressed to DivX5 and also MPEG2. Prior to getting a new hard drive last nite, I was able to play back the Huffyuv source (30 gig) and view it just as I do the DivX5 and MPEG2.

Now after a fresh install of windows, and reinstalling DivX5, MPEG2 and Huffyuv codecs, I cannot watch the video. Previously I had a massive list of codecs installed, but am 100% sure I used the Huffyuv 2.2.0 to encode, and AVICodec agrees that it is a Huffyuv stream.

The image is there, but superimposed are huge dragging blocks of random colors and interlace (the source file was interlaced but appeared as progressive during Windows Media Player 9 playback on my previous hard drive. Here is a sample:



(That should be a PURE black (well, as pure as VHS SP mode can do) background)


What did I not install correctly? I just want to be able to:
a) watch the source
b) edit and recompress the source with VirtualDub (which sees the source the same as media player...garbled)

Again, all the files I encoded OFF the source (divx, mpeg1, mpeg2, etc..) all look fine.. It's just the source that looks bad now.

Thanks MUCH in advance!