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ActiveMovie window popping-up when playing AVIs (Yaobing)
Deivit:
Hi, I'm starting this thread since the problem could be specific to my setup.
Basically, when I start playing an AVI video-clip, instead of playing in the "Playing Display" window, it actually does it in a popped up "ActiveMovie" window (unskinned), separate from MC. I first thought it was because of the new "display view" design., but Yaobing answered in the build thread that such "ActiveMovie" should not appear.
As per Yaobing request, this is what I see when i click on Directshoe Filters ---> Current Filters:
Video Renderer
Default Directsound Device
VideoMixingRenderer 9
MPEG Layer-3 Decoder
XviD MPEG-4 Decoder
Greyed out:
AVI Splitter
File Source (Async.)
Other info, in case it is relevant:
Set Display ----> DirectX
Video Playback Settings ---->
(Video Controls, such as brightness, contrast, etc, are greyed out)
More DirectShow Options---->
under "Not Use DirectShow" ---> mp4
under "Use DirectShow" -----> A bunch of extensions, including .avi and .divx
Hope it helps to narrow down the problem. Let me know if you need more info.
Thanks in advance.
Yaobing:
--- Quote from: Deivit on June 29, 2006, 01:25:55 pm ---Hi, I'm starting this thread since the problem could be specific to my setup.
Basically, when I start playing an AVI video-clip, instead of playing in the "Playing Display" window, it actually does it in a popped up "ActiveMovie" window (unskinned), separate from MC. I first thought it was because of the new "display view" design., but Yaobing answered in the build thread that such "ActiveMovie" should not appear.
As per Yaobing request, this is what I see when i click on Directshoe Filters ---> Current Filters:
Video Renderer
Default Directsound Device
VideoMixingRenderer 9
--- End quote ---
Just as I suspected, DirectShow inserted "Video Renderer" and disregarded the "VideoMixingRenderer 9" which I inserted. The solution on my part is to detect such a situation and deal with it.
On your part you might want to think about why VMR9 can not be used on your system. One possibility is that "XviD MPEG-4 Decoder" is not compatible with VMR9. If this is the case, a work-around for you is to use FFDShow. The FFDShow video decoder can decode Divx and Xvid formats and is compatible with VMR9.
--- Quote ---Video Playback Settings ---->
(Video Controls, such as brightness, contrast, etc, are greyed out)
--- End quote ---
Yes, this is relevant. Video control is available only with VMR9, or legacy Video Renderer, not with the default Video Renderer (Video Mixing Renderer 7) on XP.
glynor:
--- Quote from: Yaobing on June 29, 2006, 02:31:10 pm ---On your part you might want to think about why VMR9 can not be used on your system. One possibility is that "XviD MPEG-4 Decoder" is not compatible with VMR9. If this is the case, a work-around for you is to use FFDShow. The FFDShow video decoder can decode Divx and Xvid formats and is compatible with VMR9.
--- End quote ---
Either that or ensure you are running the current XviD build. I'd probably just use FFDSHOW though. When I get home I can post links to a good, safe, recent build (some of the June nightlies are dangerous though, and can break MPEG-2 encoding and playback).
A good place to look for current FFDSHOW builds is http://x264.nl/
Deivit:
Yaobing,
Just in case it is relevant, it worked fine with MC 11.1.
I finally installed MC 12 on top of it so I cannot confirm whether it' would still be working in MC 11.1 or not, but nothing else has changed in my system apart from installing MC.12.
Actually I was playing video clips in MC 11.1 right before installing MC.12
Glynor,
I appreciate your help in this issue. Hopefully Yaobing can find a solution, since honestly I'm not very aware of all this xvid, divx, ffdshow stuff.
Thanks.
Mr ChriZ:
Just for Info.
On the machine that was doing it on the machine i was on the
other day, the only codec I had downloaded was the latest one
from DIVX themselves, as in http://www.divx.com/
but then thats exactly the same as this machine...
(both set up by me!)...
and this one works...
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