Help: unable to play ogg video/audio

[cheerful]

AVI file

Video codec H264 (Name: ITU H.26n)

Audio codec ogg_vorbis_1 (0x674f) Ogg Vorbis

I've downloaded codec from http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/. They emphasizes to uninstall any previous ogg codec.

This is a fresh installation of XP. GSpot show the video codec H264 is supported by Intervideo, so I uninstalled Intervideo WinDVD to be safe. Now the video coded is not supported.

The audio codec ogg_vorbis_1 (0x674f) Ogg Vorbis is not supported.

Then I reboot the machine and installed oggcodecs right after reboot.

After installation, nothing changes. Both video and audio codec remains unsupported.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong?

Thanks!

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This is the video header information

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 576x432 29.97fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {34363248-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1492992
cbFormat: 88

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0)
dwBitRate: 0
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 333666

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 0
biWidth: 576
biHeight: 432
biPlanes: 0
biBitCount: 24
biCompression: H264
biSizeImage: 0
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

pbFormat:
0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 62 17 05 00 00 00 00 00 ........b.......
0030: 00 00 00 00 40 02 00 00 b0 01 00 00 00 00 18 00 ....@...°.......
0040: 48 32 36 34 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 H264............
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

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Here is the audio portion

Media Type 0:
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Audio: Vorbis 48000Hz stereo

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {8D2FD10B-5841-4A6B-8905-588FEC1ADED9}
formattype: Unknown GUID Name {B36E107F-A938-4387-93C7-55E966757473}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 8192
cbFormat: 4267

VORBISFORMAT:
Channels: 2
SamplesPerSec: 48000
BitsPerSample: 0
HeaderSize: {30, 73, 4140}

[cheerful]

One thing I did notice is that there is a lot of dll in the oggcodecs installation folder. None of those dsfXXX.dll file are in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder. Is this the problem?

[Skith]

no, that shouldnt be a problem.

Well, you will need something to decode the AVC (H264) video. If Intervideo WinDVD supports that, there was no need to uninstall it. If you don't want to use that, you could try FFDShow. CoreAVC is another choice and only costs $10 and is by far the most efficient way to decode AVC video. A great choice if your system is not super fast.

As for the audio, I am not familiar with the one you are using, but ffdshow can decode ogg vorbis audio. The other choice is CoreVorbis which can be downloaded at http://corecodec.org/frs/?group_id=16 . If you use either, be sure to completely uninstall and reboot your machine before installing an alternate version.

If you go with the corevorbis download that does not include an installer, you can place the CoreVorbis.ax filter in the folder of your choice then open a command promt (start->run->cmd) and at the prompt type: regsvr32 [path]\CoreVorbis.ax
replace [path] with the path to the file. For example, on my system it would be: regsvr32 "E:\Program Files\Filters\CoreVorbis.ax"

Note that I included quotes in the path because there were spaces, if there are no spaced in the path, the quotes are unnecessary.

If you ever want to unregister to the filter, simply type the same line, except with regsvr32 /u at the beginning.

[celtic_druid]

Illiminable's filters are for ogg files, with some limited ogm support. You however have an avi file with AVC video and vorbis audio? Can you please go and punch whomever created it for me? Vorbis has no place in an avi container. Neither really does AVC.

MPC has a built in vorbis decoder, however I guess maybe the file was created with vorbis acm? Seems odd though to use that with AVC video. To playback vorbis ACM encoded files, you need the matching version installed. Think there were two versions. Both several years old and only with Japanese documentation.

[cheerful]

Thanks for the help. Video works fine now, though my CPU is quite busy.

I found that if I install OGGDS, it would decode the audio.

Not sure if I can keep both OGGDS and oggcodecs.

[celtic_druid]

What version of MPC are you running? Could be that it is pre-vorbis if Tobias' decoder works and it doesn't.

[cheerful]

MPC is the latest.