How to get rid of this "Color Space Converter" Filter?

[sibe]

Hi everybody,

all over sudden all my divx4 avis, or better said all videos played with the divx4 decoder filter looked very ugly in Win98 and had sync problems, too.
I have a dual boot system with Win98 and Win2k and in Win2k it plays fine, but there's a driver problem with my soundcard (no 4-channel sound, manufacturer says this will be corrected in the next driver version), so I'd rather use Win98 atm.

When I checked with graphedit there was a "Color Space Converter" filter between the avi decompressor and the video renderer in Win98, that wasn't there before and also isn't present in Win2k. So I figuered that's the problem for the ugly looking video. So I deleted this filter from the graph but graphedit automaticly inserted it again when I connected the avi decompressor with the video renderer.

Anybody knows where this filter comes from and how can I get rid of it?

TIA,

Sibe

p.s.: I hope you don't flame me for not putting this in the "Divx4 Encoding" forum, but since this isn't an encoding problem but a decoding/playing problem I thought I'd ask here.

[LigH]

"Color Space Conversion" means that the DirectShow system is not able to play the AVI in its native color format; for DivX4 this is usually a YUV mode I think. A conversion to RGB shall work, too. But for good quality, a video mode with 24 or 32 bits per pixel may be required. Are you currently using a color depth of 16 bits for your desktop? Do you have a video card which shall support YUV textures (e.g. a GeForce)?

Beside that, this question is probably better located in the GraphEdit forum, there may be more people who know DirectShow internals.

[trbarry]

Beside that, this question is probably better located in the GraphEdit forum, there may be more people who know DirectShow internals.

Where is the GraphEdit forum?

- Tom

[LigH]

Originally posted by trbarry


Where is the GraphEdit forum?

- Tom

??? ... :confused: Very strange - I was sure there has been one; maybe it was renamed. Or one of the other forums had so many questions about it that I thougt it had an own. I'm sorry for this confusion.

[sibe]

Yes, I use 16 bit color depth for my desktop. I didn't think of this, but after you mentioned it i switched to 32 bit and the problem (and the filter) was gone.

But this is strange because I always had a 16 bit desktop and I haven't had this problem before and in Win2k there's no problem with a 16 bit desktop either.
Any explanation for this?

But thanks anyway for pointing me in the right direction as switching to 32 bit is an easy solution.

Sibe

By the way my graphics card is a Rage Fury Pro.