[XviD-users] wmplayer and xvid: not working after install

[Casper]

I am not suggest you to use WMP but I think there are lots of
solutions on the internet,
you may search search in google or something else.

And you've said that you can still play xvid video well after
uninstalled XviD Codec,
I think is that you've installed DivX or something else that can
decode XviD Video??

On 20/09/05, Daniel Donnelly <dd93 at dana.ucc.nau.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason xvid.org forums are not accepting joiners, so maybe xvid-users
> know my symptoms....
> 
> I've recently built and installed the xvid codec on WinXP and Window Media
> Player 10 is not using the codec (usual "can't find right codec" error dialog)
> to play an xvid video.  Previously I had a divx codec installed and WMP did
> use that to play video I encoded with REVEL, which uses xvid.  What needs to
> be done, or what other info do you need?
> 
> Also, I plan to insert these videos into a PPT presentation and I've had some
> problems with random codecs not being supported through PowerPoint.  How can
> this be if PPT uses the same list of codecs everything else does.  Of course,
> WMP isn't recognizing some codecs either.  I could be imagining that, but some
> videos that would play under WMP would crash PPT - I though PPT uses a WMP
> plugin (?)  There's not a lot of information on how PPT works at that level
> that I can find.  This is a whole other problem though from the first, but
> just in case anyone would recognize it.
> 
> On xvid installation: everything went as it should AFAICT.  xvidcore.dll and
> xvidvfw.dll are in system32, instructions that were packaged with the source
> code were followed.  I've also checked that the problem still occurs with the
> dll's in the video file's directory.
> 
> I did have a binary distribution of xvid installed that also did not work with
> WMP, in the same manner.  Before attempting to install xvid and test, I
> removed all other related codecs (all divx, that xvid, etc.) with the windows
> device manager in addition to their uninstall utilities if they came with one.
> 
> More Details:
> The video file is an AVI made by REVEL by examples/reveltest.cpp.  Here is the
> interesting part: I have videos made by someone else that windows say are
> encoded with xvid (properties), and that also say they're xvid.  WMP plays one
> this file perfectly.  To ensure it was *the* xvid codec that I installed I
> tried removing xvid through the device manager (and that didn't quite work
> either...), so instead I just deleted xvidcore/xvidvfw.dll from the system32
> folder and made sure they're not reappearing.  The xvid video still plays!
> That convinces me that it's not a problem with REVEL or the avi it outputs.
> What's up with that?  I haven't yet tried removing MS MPEG-4 codec (maybe
> there's a conflict?), so I'll try that next.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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Casper