Lost XviD - plain decode

[jolson]

:confused: (Yes, I'm confused. Probably because I'm getting old. And probably because things work "too" well nowadays, so when something fails you have forgotten how to lok for faults and solutions...)

I have had XviD (Koepi's XviD-1.1.2-01112006.exe) running on my machine for a while without problems. I could watch XviD AVI's in MediaPlayer Classic as well as converting to DVD using DVD2SVCD. I'm running on a portable with XP.

Then, (of course), I tested installing a couple of programs/codecs mainly for matroska/h.264. After that (the installation of those programs/codecs seems to be the culprit), XviD doesn't work. I have tried both uninstalling those new codecs/programs as well as reinstalling XviD, to no avail.

The files play in VLC (which I believe has the XviD decoding internal?), so there's nothing wrong with them.

The problem is that it was a long time ago I had to do anything with this, "XviD - Configure decoder" gives no interesting options. I guess there's some other place I can configure which filter to use, I thought there should be someplace in Control Panel where I could affect filter orders, used decoder and such. But I find nothing about DirectShow or similar anywhere...

Playback of other codecs, like DivX, works.
Any pointers?

[unskinnyboy]

This "doesn't work" means what? Nothing happens? You get some error message? Your PC explodes?

Load your XviD file into GraphEdit and post the screenshot here.

[jolson]

Sorry, with "doesn't work" I meant that the file couldn't be rendered with mpc or GSpot. I will download GraphEdit and have a look, it's a new machine I have setup because the old PC exploded.

[foxyshadis]

Graphedit won't render it either, in that case. Try downloading CCCP Insurgent, and see if it gives you any information about lingering codecs. You might need some harsh registry-hacking methods to remove them. Another option is reinstalling directshow; the most basic step is running the command "regsvr32 quartz.dll"

[jolson]

I will download Insurgent, though CCCP gives me some "bad vibes" since their pack was one of the two things (the other one was a video conversion program trial) that I know to have installed between when everything worked and now. But that program should do nothing but checking status...

Reinstalling DirectShow might very well be my next step.

[jolson]

In the Codec Pack column it only shows: "Combined Community Codec Pack" (Uninstalled), no other packs. One system class, "DirectShow Filters" and 216 filters.

Insurgent can't (obviously) render the file either
DirectShow Error: 0x80040218: Couldn't find a filter combination to render the stream.

[jolson]

I "looked around" among all the filters with DirectShow Filter Manager, but could never force the video codec I wanted to be used (the one used wasn't in the directshow filter - or any other - list, so I couldn't lower its' merit). Reinstalling DirectX, XviD and ffdshow didn't help either.

Avi Splitter (http://www.free-codecs.com/Avi_Splitter_download.htm) seems to get me on the right track, however. It takes a long time now to open a movie in mpc (re-indexing?) but it's possible to play the movie now.

It's not as before, but getting usable anyway...

[jolson]

Installing Gordian Knot codec & ripping packs fixed it all :)

It would had been better to know exactly what was wrong and how to do a least-impact fix of the situation, but I think this was the second-best.

Thanks for the suggestions.