Xvid and SP2 - any problems to be expected?

[killingspree]

i'm currently considering (!) to update my home machine to SP2 and have read that SP2 is causing some troubles with Divx (see here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80782)!

now i don't really care about a working divx installation but i am using Xvid on a very frequent basis, so my question is:

has anybody installed SP2 and sucessfully encoded an xvid movie afterwards??

thx in advance,

steVe

[olavitur]

I have installed SP2 and I can encode Xvid clips just like before installing it. Just make sure that you disable the new microsoft firewall and you shouldn't have any problems.

[sysKin]

XviD does not create or modify its code when it runs, so I don't expect any problems at all - at least not with execution protection. I'd say you're safe.

Radek

[killingspree]

thx

[ChronoCross]

Actually from my tests SP2 has actually increased the speed of my xvid. I'm using a P3 1.1ghz machine and using a script that used to give me 4-5fps when running through xvid is now giving me 10fps. I also tried doing a 0 filter set with just a crop and resize and I actually for the first time in history I got realtime 30fps encoding.

Anyone else experienced this?

[KE]

I have no problems with XviD and SP2.
There is no need to disable the firewall.

[Sirber]

No problem here too, with XP SP2 French :)

[Sharktooth]

No problems here.
However P2P is slowed down terribly (coz of the EventID 4226).
A patcher is available here: http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
It works with any OS language.
A connection limit of 100 (or more?) is reccomended for P2P users (SP2 default = 10).

[Yuuhi]

Originally posted by Sharktooth
A connection limit of 100 (or more?) is reccomended for P2P users (SP2 default = 10).


Override the limit is useful only if you are a heavy User of Emule/Edonkey, BitTorrent or any P2P program that requires a lot of incoming/outcoming connection to/from the users that share what you're looking for.

[Fr4nz]

Originally posted by Sharktooth
No problems here.
However P2P is slowed down terribly (coz of the EventID 4226).
A patcher is available here: http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
It works with any OS language.
A connection limit of 100 (or more?) is reccomended for P2P users (SP2 default = 10).

Patching is not required. Here's the reason:

from Microsoft website :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...ion127121120120


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The TCP/IP stack now limits the number of simultaneous incomplete
outbound TCP connection attempts. After the limit has been reached,
subsequent connection attempts are put in a queue and will be resolved
at a fixed rate. Under normal operation, when applications are
connecting to available hosts at valid IP addresses, no connection
rate-limiting will occur. When it does occur, a new event, with ID
4226, appears in the system’s event log.

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