ffdshow *BIG* problem

[oddball]

ffdshow will not playback some DiVX 3 content. It gets garbled if I use ffdshow as a playback filter for this particular file and any other file encoded by this fansubbing group.

According to AVI Info it's encoded in Div3 MPEG4 Cracked ;)

I have no problems playing back this kind of content normally.

It plays back perfectly however if I disable ffdshow from playing back DiVX3 content.

I have tried different players. Installing the Nimo codec pack and nothing helps.

Here are a couple of screencaps to show what is happening.

This 1st capture is with ffdshow enabled to playback DiVX3 content for this file.
http://www.oddball.nildram.co.uk/bscap1.jpg

This is how it looks when captured with ffdshow disabled for DiVX3 content and DiVX5.02 enabled for playback.
http://www.oddball.nildram.co.uk/bscap0.jpg

I have also included a 1 meg video only sample from the video file concerned for anyone else to download (Particularly the author of ffdshow if he is reading).

It can be downloaded here (http://www.oddball.nildram.co.uk/segment.avi)

I have a Matrox G400 Max 32 dual head video card with latest drivers in WinXP Pro.

As stated. All other DiVX3 content plays back fine with ffdshow. But I do not wish to keep coming across this problem and having to disable ffdshow for DiVX3 content everytime it happens.

[oddball]

Nevermind I found out the problem. ffdshow can't handle odd aspect resolutions unless you enable the resize option in the ffdshow options.

[clima]

Same opinion as oddball without resizing it doesn't work too.

[gabest]

Maybe it just can't handle anything with a width not divisable by at least 8. But that has to be tested what I'm not going to do now :)

[RadicalEd]

cho-bi-tsu ^_^
Looks like the version thats floating around on kazaa, but thats not a weird size (640x480 in fact) out of curiosity howd yours get to be 636x476 anyway?

[oddball]

Different group encoded it. They don't like to resize due to apparent 'smearing'. But this causes the issue with non-divisible by 8.

Chii!!! :)

[Hajime]

Strange, if i see the clip with wmp it looks weird, like the fist screenshot; But in zoom player it looks normal, of course the both cases using ffdshow.

[oddball]

Maybe Zoom Player has it's own type of resize.

[Head Hunter]

I was wondering what caused that problem, I just changed the fourcc code to mp43 and let that filter work on its own.

[RadicalEd]

Different group encoded it. They don't like to resize due to apparent 'smearing'.

err... what the heck kind of source is 636x476

[Koepi]

Originally posted by RadicalEd


err... what the heck kind of source is 636x476

A real good laugh?

Just an educated guess.

regards,
Koepi