How to get rid of opening green flash?

[JimmyBarnes]

Did my first XviD encode "Evolution"

Seemed to be OK, but in WMP6.4, when the AVI first started playing, there is a bright green flash. When I look at the AVI in VDub1.4.10, the opening frames are all black - no green to be seen.

That points to a playback problem, but anyway tried this: Used OggMux to add the Ogg Vorbis audio, then OggCut to remove the first 12 seconds (tried to get less but this is the mimimum apparently - couldn't control the cutting point very well at all). The green flash still occurred even though the OGM started playing well into the opening sequence.

Keopi mentions the 1st frame green bug and that they are working to rectify the problem, but no fix mentioned.

Am using XviD-22052002-1.exe - latest decoder.

Your help please

thanx
JB

[DaveEL]

Currently no fix exists there is nothing wrong with the video you made and once the decoder has been fixed it will work fine. You could install ffdshow for now and set that to decode xvid. You could also try reading the forum as the 9th post is titled "XviD DSF - First frame green bug" which is the problem you are having if you looked at that it would have answered your question.

DaveEL

[JimmyBarnes]

Originally posted by DaveEL
You could also try reading the forum as the 9th post is titled "XviD DSF - First frame green bug" which is the problem you are having if you looked at that it would have answered your question.

DaveEL

I did find that in a search (I mentioned Kopei's post remember) but presumed someone must have a workaround for it as I have downloaded a number of XviD samples and they don't show the bug. Now that I think of it, they did not require the XviD decoder to be installed, but used DivX. Presumably they were created using FourCC set to DivX rather than XviD (?)

JB

[DaveEL]

yes they changed the fourcc to divx but IIRC the divx decoder does not support all the features of xvid and so may not decode all xvid content.

DaveEL