Video codec problem?

[thai1]

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!

[guns1inger]

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

[thai1]

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.