Figuring out which codecs are actually used

[Hitokun]

Hi. I recently downloaded lots of different codecs and different packs to view all my AVI files because I thought: what the heck? You can never have too many right? Well, I was wrong. I now have too many. And apparently one is totally messing up my video because now some players I use to view ANY file shows up as a seemly badly color filtered video.

Of the ones I've tried, Media Classic and WMP 10 seem to be the ones that show video badly. The blue color changes to yellow, the red to green. Everything else is pretty much white, or seem to have super bright video altering. What's weird is that in WMP 10 I can change the color back to normal by pulling the hue all the way to the left. The contrast in the movie however is still messed up, and I cannot adjust the video settings to match the original video perfectly. Virtualdub and VLC do however play the video perfectly. I assume this is because both of those players use their own codecs, not the computer's.

Can anyone tell me directly what the problem is, or if not can they give me a program that will tell me what codecs the players are using when playing the bad video so I can delete them? Thanks a lot!

[lordsmurf]

DXMAN

[Hitokun]

OK so now I can view the codecs (BTW Thanks a lot lordsmurf!), but I don't know which codecs to delete and which not to. Deleting a codec that is installed by windows (not internet) would be a permanent action that I don't think I could replace so I don't want to make a mistake here. Can anyone help me out more?

[lordsmurf]

Guess.

[Hitokun]

Thanks. I'll take that into consideration.

[lordsmurf]

It's really the only way.
GSPOT to see what's being required, delete others.

But be sure not to delete important ones.

And one final note, sometimes fixing it requires a reformat. Codec packs are the worst video mistake.

[celtic_druid]

MPC tells you what filters are in use, it also exports the graph so you can render it in graphedit and see the exact filter chain. Should be easy enough from that to see what you should remove to fix your problem.

VDub only uses its own decoder for MJPEG. It uses VfW codecs though where as MPC, WMP, etc. uses dshow filters/decoders. VLC only uses its own decoders, splitters, etc. except I think for QDesign audio.