V-dub trouble

[sherminater]

Now I know this was brought up in the V-dub facts. But when i try to open a xvid file in v-dub it just tells me "Couldn't locate decompressor for format XVID 'Unkown'". It brings up the issue in the faq, but not how to fix it. Thank you in advance for any help.

[killingspree]

hi and welcome to the forum,

just so everybody who reads the thread can see it, here's the FAQ entry:

I tried to opened a avi file but I get a "Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'XXXX' (unknown)" error, although it plays fine with my movie player. What's the matter?
This is another facet of the vfw/dshow trouble. You seem to only have a DirectShow filter installed for the respective codec, but VirtualDub needs a vfw codec. This happens e.g. with xvid when you have only ffdshow installed.


You see the answer is actually given in here: do you only have ffdshow installed? if not, what version of xvid do you have installed. perhaps you'll want to try Nic's Xvid decoder filter. you can find it here (http://nic.dnsalias.com/)

If this doesn't work I would recommend reinstalling xvid completely and perhaps uninstalling ffdshow!

cheers
steVe