Video Screen Capture and Encoding

[drewzor]

Hi guys, I'm capturing my screen as a video and the program allows me to output multipule types of files. AVI is my problem

It doesnt matter what format I output from I cannot get it to Divx
VDM gives this error
video compression error: the source image format is not acceptable ( error code -2)

This is what I have tried so far
Dimensions changed to a smaller x16 aspect,
With or without audio
24bit and 16bit colour

My guess is that screen capture codecs are different in some way.

I can output to xvid (but cannot get it back to divx from there either)
I can also output to huffy but it plays back like when you play too high a frequency on your monitor (off set interlaced and flickering)

I'd just like to know whats going on, any ideas?

[guns1inger]

Perhaps this might help

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=22987

or this

http://forums.divx.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/776104432/m/698101732

or more here

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=divx+%22error+code+-2%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&start=10&sa=N

[drewzor]

THANKS guns1inger, it turns out the divx registered yv12 service in my registery was set to yv12vfw.dll instead of divx.dll

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Fixing divx error code 2
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32\VIDC.YV12
should be set to divx.ll