Xvid playing in black and white?

[jp110099]

I have ffdshow and koepi's xvid codec installed, and they both cause the video to be in black and white. I tried ffdshow first, then I installed the codec and it gave me the same issues. Also, does ffdshow work for encoding or do you need the actual codec installed. Thanks a lot.

[foxyshadis]

ffdshow can encode, but you'll find the xvid codec much simpler to use if you need to change anything.

As for why it's in black and white, it's not something I'd normally expect a player to cause, but it's possible, try it with at least one other. You might check the colorspace output (ffdshow can select yv12, yuy2, and rgb which is most compatible), and look through all active filters to make sure a greyscale decoding isn't enabled anywhere. To reset ffdshow's configuration, you have to delete a registry key (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\ffdshow) if you want to try that. If your player offers renderer options, try changing to system default (overlay) or VMR9 as well. MPC and Zoom Player can do this.

[jp110099]

It happens in windows media player but not vlc, could my pc hardware play a factor in this since I just upgraded?

[joseph5]

It happens in windows media player but not vlc, could my pc hardware play a factor in this since I just upgraded?
If it works in VLC, I don't think so.

[Sharro]

Hmmm, I'm curious... Is it a movie you encoded and does it happen with all of your movies ?

All the best,

Sharro

[jp110099]

happens w/ all my movies, and even in some mpeg videos, but i reinstalled xvid and ffdshow, but set ffdshow to not decode xvid and it solved the problem, except for the mpgs.

[Carpo]

if your using windows media player 9/10/11, i have had this before with a xp disc i made when i tried to put all the updates and drivers for my mobo and cards, open mediaplayer goto tools -> options -> performance -> advanced, video acceleration - you will have to untick use overlays and tick high quality mode, or its the other way around, i know an update from ms can cause this

do the above worked for me