What is the right filter to play back xvid ?

[Alain_French]

Hi,

I m sorry but i don t understand verry well english, and i dont find how to play back correctly the new xvid.

As usual, i used ffdshow with libavcodec. But since some xvid versions, ffdshow crashes the explorer, or now with liavcodec freeze the video...
With ffdshow with xvid, i have a black screnn...
With ffdshow in DISABLED, it work fine, but i find the xvid decoder has less option than ffdshow, like postprocessing for deblocking.

When i read the XVID FAQ, i understand i can use ffdshow or nic direct show. ffdshow is too old now, i think, and i believe that nic ds are not updated since 16/07/03 (http://nic.dnsalias.com/XviD-Dec.exe) and the xvid is completely different now.

So please, tell me what is the better solution to play back my xvid :confused:
Thank you

[communist]

Just use XviDs decoder. Disable playback over ffdshow - it doesnt handle more than 2 consecutive b-frames when 'Packed Bitstream' is enabled - resulting in stuttery playback.
Unless someone 'fixes' ffdshow you'll have to disable above mentioned settings for your encodes to make them play fine with ffdshow.

[Alain_French]

Thank you very much, i hope ffdshow will update soon. No more new version since May 2003 :(

[Soulhunter]

Originally posted by Alain_French
Thank you very much, i hope ffdshow will update soon. No more new version since May 2003 :(
I use a build from November '03... :rolleyes:

Thanks to athos... (http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/) ;)

Bye

[Alain_French]

Why these version are not on sourceforge ? Non official ?

But the last version seems to not work with the new xvid rc1 in libavcodec, i ve got freeze et with xvid, ffdshow crash...
I hope there will be a new version soon :)

[Alvy]

You have to disable overlay and use libavcodec.

[yaz]

Originally posted by Alain_French
So please, tell me what is the better solution to play back my xvid :confused:
yeah ... sometimes we all are a bit confused :-) try the brand new release of xvid.ax from syskin. find it here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70020).

as regards ffdshow. it's improper for decoding devapi4 xvid encodes! it worx but not in a proper way. do not(!) use libavcodec for decoding even wout 'packed bitstream'. i never use this option but ffdshow always produces heavy artifacts for me when b-frames are used. in add, there's some messy around its colorspace handling too.

the 'official' development of ffdshow seems to be stopped but there are some 'service' releases. find them here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48511&highlight=ffdshow+development). note, it is a quite 'technical' thread but it worth to kick in time to time.

however, ffdshow is a good postprocessor. a tricky way is disabling xvid in the codec session (means, decoding with xvid itself) & enabling raw video yv12 (it makes all postproc available for xvid) at the very moment xvid is able to handle divx(5) & mp4 streams too (find info about it here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=68117)) so the xvid-ffdshow combo seems to become a 'general solution' again :-)

the bests
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[EDIT] it's worth to follow the developments also here (http://xvid.gamrdev.com). These are the versions not published as 'official' releases, so use it on your risk !