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LLoydBates
21st October 2002, 08:30
Hi,
I'm a noob at xvid so don't expect me to know everything, and NO .. english is not my first language :-)

So let's get to the point.
I DL some XviD encodes and installed the XviD codec 03/10/02 from Nic's webpage ... everything was fine, smooth playing ...
Next morning after a normal reboot i wanted to watch the movie again.
AND??? it looked horrible, like no post-processing was done. I checked it, but it was all activated.
i uninstalled the codec and installed an other build, no change.
then i uninstalled again, rebooted, instaled nic's build and it was fine again. then reboot and... ugly.

I change the 4CC from XVID to DIVX, and it was playing nicely.
however if i have a xvid encode i want to watch it with xvid and not divx.
I tried to use ffdshow in the latetest version, played with the settings following guides in the forum. didn't help at all, same problem as pure xvid decoding.

if you want to know how the video looked, turn down all the post-processing and watch one, noise and verticale line in the video. when watching at fullscreen it there is no smoothing of the edges, very blocky.

My PC:
Win2000 SP3
WMP 6.4
Duron 1000
256MB DDR
GeForce2Ti @1024*768*32
XVID Nic's 03/10/02
DirectX 8.1

I searched on the forum but couldn't find anything that said:
if you change this and that it works...

any idea?

Teegedeck
21st October 2002, 08:50
Did the movie look OK with DivX fourcc without postprocessing?
Did you know that turning up Nic's postprocessing too high/using too low threshholds can have adverse effects? Maybe too much postprocessing then?

LLoydBates
21st October 2002, 10:05
with DivX post-processing it looked fine ...
i tryed XviD post-processing in almost all possible ways ... and nothing changed!!! it all looks the same.

what is funny: after a reboot installing a fresh xvid (xvid uninstall before reboot) it looks fine, than reboot WITH installed xvid and it looks terrible...
today i'm reinstalling win2k because of a HD block defect ... we will see ... back in hm ... 12hours

sysKin
21st October 2002, 12:57
Are you sure you mean *postprocessing* ?? It's not that easy to spot and it doesn't look horrible without it.
What you might mean is *video overlay*. Movies look horrible without it, there are big pixels visible, big CPU load etc.

Do a simple test - press PrintScreen on your keyboard while playing (try both windowed and fullscreen) and paste the image from your clipobard to any graphic program (even MS Word).
You'll see a screenshot from your desktop *without the movie*. There should be no video on the picture. If there is, then your player doesn't use overlay.
If you have overlay problems... well try updating your video drivers and try changing color depth. For example, I often have no overlay at 16 bits, but it is back when desktop's color depth is 32 bits.

Radek

LLoydBates
21st October 2002, 19:14
Post-Processing:
Opening a video, press File, properties and selecting the properties of the codec ... XviD mpeg4 ...
then see the options described as POST-PROCESSING...

if this is nor post-processing, then i don't know why it is named this way...
btw, there is no problem with overlay, as you described i couldn't see the movie .. only black.
reinstalled windows, and now i'm DL the newest stable build from nic.
we will see what happens after a reboot.

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UPDATE:
It seems that the problem was windows... or something deep in this f*****g program programed by Microsoft...

well the codec works, and it kicks ass.
i love it... looking forwoard for an encode *G*

Big thanks to all people who read this thread.
To the moderater, plz delet it. thx

cypher_soundz
12th July 2003, 05:31
Please Don't suggest deleting this thread:eek: the whole forum is a giant book of knowledge , with out it we would just ask the same questions over and over again! (some do ;)) i hope this will solve my problem on my laptop , although it does only go up to 24bit colour so we will have to see.

regards
cyph