How do you use ffdshow?

[dwallersv]

God I hate having to bug the intelligensia with stuff like this, but I have spent two hours now searching the forum to no avail, and there was no useful documentation where I looked when downloading ffdshow.

I thought that it would "just work" as a filter after installation, and I could view x264 encodes with WMP. Installation of ffdshow went fine, but I can't figure out how to actually use it to decode x264 format AVIs.

Help please...

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Go to FFDShow -> Video Decoder Configuration -> CoDecs and in the window on
the right find "H.264" and enable libavcodec in drop-down window. You may also
want to disable postprocessing somewhere in the middle of a left window, as it
harms h.264 visual behavior badly.

[dwallersv]

Hmmm... did that, and h.264 was already set for libavcodec.

However, when I try to open a file I encoded using x264 through MeGUI or GKnot in Window Media Player, it just sits there and nothing happens.

Xvid, OTOH, "just worked". Don't know what I'm doing wrong...

[dani82]

not sure what x264 is, but for h.264, i'd always uses media player classic and vlc; never could get it to work for wmp7

[Lil' Jer]

not sure what x264 is, but for h.264, i'd always uses media player classic and vlc; never could get it to work for wmp7

You don't know what x264 is? Have you completely missed this forum (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=77)?

[dani82]

i wasn't aware that i was suppose to visit every forum and read every new thread that pops up, just so i can understand the extend of the question being asked

i did not read the "codec shootout" thread; because it is irrelevant when making s/vcd; only reason i knew about h.264, was because some fan-subs are switching to h.264

as for you, i don't care what members say, but your reply was rude (mine: sarcastic) even if the sentence ended with ?; 1st, you mis-quoted me, 2nd, the fact you think i'm blind enough to miss that forum and it's description (aka H.264)