Sorry if this should rather be placed in the newbie section...


I'm using ffdshow to view movies but VirtualDub won't work with it as it needs a VFW compatible codec. Going from the name I supposed ffvfw to be exactly that and thought it could be used to decode all mpeg4 movies in VD like ffdshow does for players.

But after installation VD still won't open xvid/divx/etc. Did I do something wrong or isn't ffvfw supposed to be used for this kind of task?

I don't like the idea to install divx4,5,xvid,mp43 and so on just to edit some videos in VD and hoped ffvfw could replace them all.