Xvid playback: everybody's blue

[YsBlok]

Hi,

Compared to all the technical questions that everybody asks here my question will probably be simple.

I'm using a Xvid build from within the last 2 weeks, but I've tried about 10 different builds.

I use Winamp3 to play my movies but everytime that I play a Xvid movie everybody's faces are blue.

When I use a different player (Vidomi) It plays with normal colors but after a minute the movie starts to run A-Sync.

Now I've heard that you can correct this with ffdshow but I've tried but as soon as I tell ffdshow to use Xvid Winamp won't play anything back.

Can somebody please help me figure this one out,

T.I.A.

YsBlok

[gldblade]

Have you tried (yet) another player, such as WMPlayer?

Does it run async when playing with Winamp?

[YsBlok]

Most other players seem to have issues with my nimo codecpack.

It runs sync in winamp.

After throwing away some codecs and reinstalling them yesterday I finally got ffdshow to let me alter the colors, It still looks like crap but instead of blue faces they now have some shade between red & yellow :-)

At least it's not as irritating as blue.

Strange thing is: On my other comp. everything works fine with the same codecs players & files. Only difference I can find is that on my asus graphics card colors are f*cked-up and on my (old) matrox card downstairs everything works fine.

YsBlok

[Koepi]

The usual suspect.

Nimo Codec Pack is evil [tm]. It is known to f*ck up your system.

Simply uninstalling it doesn't work, you need to reinstall your computer. next time DON'T install Nimo then, but just some free codecs like

- ffdshow
- OggDS
- FreeDVD

That's usually all you need.

Regards
Koepi

[Smiff]

nah i think there's something wrong with winamp3, i couldn't get it to not show hue all wrong either... it was the only player to do this.

[YsBlok]

Yup, it's probably winamp since all the other players seem to work for other people, problem is Nimo=Evil like Koepie said cause it seems to make all other players unstable on my comp.

But i'm still sure that there has to be a way to make it work properly with Winamp, maybe the next release will have it fixed. It's not half bad to have so few problems in you first public release.

If anybody else has a idea just let me know.

YsBlok

[sh0dan]

I can tell you that the U and V colors are swapped, but not how to correct it. WinAmp is buggy, or the horrible nimo pack has detroyed yet another windows installation (it IS bad! :devil: )

[Blight]

I actually wrote a guide on how to properly configure your system for media playback, but I'm not sure if doom9 would appriciate me posting it, so I won't.

Now wasn't that helpful ;)

Some tips though, nimo installs MMSwitch.AX, which can cause issues (not with color thing though).

[YsBlok]

I unregistered MMSwitch.ax & subtitds.ax and now WMP works again.

Stupid thing is: In WMP colors are f*cked-up even when playing DIVXMP4 files.

So now I have:
Winamp3, plays divx properly and after some alterations in ffdshow Xvid with a pink glow :-)

&

WMP, plays everything with the colors screwed-up.

I think there's 1 more .ax that's causing it :-)

Let me know if you've got any more ideas.

YsBlok

[kilg0r3]

download graphedit from doom9

then open a media file inside it

make a screen capture of the graph

post it here

@blight

i don't see why doom9 should be annoyed by your posting your guide here. after all it is not directly related to the creation of media files, is it?