What is the YUY2 decompressor?

[archaeo]

When trying to use the RB video segment viewer/editor, I recieved this message: "Video not available, cannot find vids:YUY2 decompressor"

Do I have a setting incorrect or I am missing some sort of plugin?


edit: If I missed this in another thread, sorry

[wmansir]

Try installing Xvid, it contains a YUY2 decompressor.

[jdobbs]

Interesting... YUY2 should be supported inherently using the msyuv.dll, which should be installed with Windows.

[archaeo]

OK, I tried the easiest suggestion first, that was jdobbs to try to install msyuv.dll to my system folder. (Note: I'm using W2K OS). I installed the .dll to both C:\system and \system32 folders at different times, rebooted and neither worked for getting the segment viewer to show the clips.

Next I took wmansir's suggestion and downloaded XviD-Dec-1.0-Beta3. Installed, and then rebooted. Still not able to view any clips in the RB segment viewer...

I didn't install the full 'program' (XviD-1.0.3-20122004), just the codec, but when I installed the codec it did indicate that a 'decompressor' was loaded successfully.

Not sure what's going on... any other suggestions? :confused:

[Wilbert]

You have to set ...vidc.yuy2 to xvidvfw.dll or to hfyu.dll (huffyuv) (or whatever the correct names are) in your registry. YV12 FAQ contains an example.

[Rockas]

I think you can use:
reg "c:\the path to\your\file.dll"

not sure though ;)

[archaeo]

Have tried these things, but still no picture in segment viewer. The closest I get was in loading the XviD full program, which eliminated the message ""Video not available, cannot find vids:YUY2 decompressor" - but it still did not show a picture, just a blank screen.

Is there any other program I could direct this viewer to that would allow me to view the segments? I know I can fall back on using the Matrix Editor by Rockas, but I'd rather try to get this feature up and running the way it should be.