Why mkv fails to load in virtualdub via avs?

[TakuSkan]

Can someone point me to where I might track down why mkv and mp4 files are no longer loading into virtualdub via directshowsource() in an avs script? I have 2 Win7 systems. One works fine. But I hadn't done this on the other for months and now can't figure out what the problem is.

Thanks for any feedback
TS

[TheRyuu]

DSS will always be reliant on the underlying system for the parser, decoder and company so while the one system may have Haali and ffdshow to parse and decode mkv files respectively the other one may not.

DSS introduces worlds of problems and should really only be used as a last resort (even then with caution and the dss2 variant should be used).

ffmpegsource (http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource/) is the preferred way for dealing with matroska (and company) files. It is all inclusive and does not rely on anything installed on the users system (however it can use Haali for transport streams).

[TakuSkan]

Hmmm... The system that has problems has both Haali and ffdshow. The one that works just has Haali. Will see if I can figure out how to configure ffmpegsource.

[TakuSkan]

ffmpegsource (http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource/) is the preferred way for dealing with matroska (and company) files. It is all inclusive and does not rely on anything installed on the users system (however it can use Haali for transport streams).
That works really well. Thanks TheRyuu.
TS