Problems with FFDSHOW.ax

[felixunger]

Dear friends,

well, so far I've posted two messages requesting help but nobody was able to lend me a hand.
Let's see if I have better luck this time.

I'm trying to play an AVI file with BSPLAYER, but when I try to open it, I get an error message:

Access violation at address 02E5572B in module 'FFDSHOW.AX'. Read of address FFFFFFFF
EAccessViolation
, 0x004E746F, 0x004E766D, 0x00453527, 0x0044A872, 0xBFBCB402, 0xBFBB3A84, 0xBFBB3FF9, 0xBFBB3DFF
Bytes at EIP: 89 01 33 C0 C2 08 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90

Strange thing is: GSPOT and AVICODEC tell me I'm ABLE to play the file, so... I don't know what to do. And if I hit the "CONTINUE" button on BSPLAYER, the file plays, but with strange colors: purple, green... it's very 60ish.

Help, anyone?

[andyp1]

I had a problem just a few hours ago. I have 2 PCs side by side and an avi file . On one PC I had a thumbnail of the first frame on the other a thumbnail which was just like a light grey slide.

On the one with the good thumbnail it played perfectly. On the other it was all over the place , blurring , pixelating , breaking up.

The codec for the avi was Divx 5.0

I uninstalled xvid and divx codecs reinstalled them - nothing.

I ran GSpot on both machines and I noticed the only difference was that when it rendered the file , the one that wouldn't play used ffdshow in the video path.

I uninstalled ffdshow and the thumbnail was correct and the file played perfectly.

I don't know if it is exactly the same situation as yours , but it sounds similar.

Basicaly what I am saying is try uninstalling ffdshow and see if that works.

It can easily be reinstalled if it doesnt cure your fault.