Direct Show Problem? [fixed]

[~*McoreD*~]

Hi Guys,

(I was having problems converting MPEG/DivX/XviD/3ivX/Xiv3 files to WMV9 using Windows Media Encoder 9. It crashes as soon as the *ivX file is imported.

Later I found out that it was a common problem to those who had Windows XP installed. They were adviced to "use windvd+regfix or Elecard as a workaround" -- this was how it was exactly mentioned in microsoft.public.windowsmedia.encoder news groups.

Until then, I had PowerDVD 5.0 installed. To watch all the *ivX files, I also had K-Lite Codec Pack installed. Installing WinDVD 5.0 didn't help me converting MPEG to WMV9 till I uninstalled K-Lite Codec Pack.

Mean while I tried the 3ivX D4 4.5 Filter to convert MP4 to WMV9. Since I was missing K-Lite Codec Pack's all codecs, I installed XviD MPEP4 Video Codec.

Those were all I tried before I faced the problem.)


On my next DVD conversion, I suddenly used to get very bad quality for WMV9 encoded files. The frames were so much pixelated and I was sure there was something unusual happening to the encoded contents. Files I encoded now at 1500 Kbps couldn't be compared to the quality I had from a 526 Kbps I encoded before. The quality was that much worse!

I was adviced to try the Windows Media Tools 4.1. The idea was to restore all the direct show filters. But that didn't work either.


Since nothing worked to me, I uninstalled everything mentioned above, and now I only have Windows Media Encoder 9 installed.

• Just now I realised I cannot play a WMV9 file fullscreen.
• I could watch DivX/XviD files even though no such decoder was installed, I mean I uninstalled -- but it is still there!
• I could not watch DivX files fullscreen too.
• However, XviD files played fullscreen.

I don't know which program did the damage to me. I still cannot encode DVDs to WMV9 with the quality I was used to. On top of that, I cannot watch any movie except for XviD, fullscreen.

My questions, do any of you guys know how to uninstall/unregister these DirectShow filters?

That would be great.

Thank you so much for listening me,
Yours,
McoreD

[HotRod]

I stopped using the K-Light Codec pac long time ago because I was having problems with it. I just restored to an image without them. Have you tried Control Panel...Sounds and Audio Devices....Hardware....Video Codecs....Properties...and delete codecs from there. Not sure if it will work, but does have remove there.

[~*McoreD*~]

Hi HotRod,

Thanks for that info. Haven't had explored that path in Windows yet.
Although it displays all the standard Video codecs like Cinepacs, Microsoft MPEG4 Video Codecs, it doesn't display other non-standard codecs like *ivx.

Thanks,
McoreD

[war59312]

Quote:

Originally posted by HotRod@Jan 15 2004, 01:27 PM
I stopped using the K-Light Codec pac long time ago because I was having problems with it. I just restored to an image without them. Have you tried Control Panel...Sounds and Audio Devices....Hardware....Video Codecs....Properties...and delete codecs from there. Not sure if it will work, but does have remove there.

thanks man i was wondering about that one myself

cause my windvd looks like poopie now

[~*McoreD*~]

FYI:

Alessandro Angeli [MVP:igitalMedia] <nobody@nowhere.in.the.net>

A DS filter is a COM server DLL (the extension is usually .ax). You can
register it with the command:

Code:

   regsvr32 filter.ax

and unregister it with

Code:

  regsvr32 /u filter.ax

See also my other reply for explanation of some of the stuff that follows.

You'd better get hold of a copy of GraphEdit (the only legal way is to
download the DirectX9 SDK; you don't need to install it: you can just
decompress it using WinZip or WinRAR and copy the graphedt.exe and
GraphEdit.chm files).

From the Graph -> Insert Filters menu you will get a list of all registerd
filters organized in their categories. Decoders are usually in the
"DirectShow Filters" category. For each filter, you see the filter name and,
expanding its entry, you can see (but not edit) the filename of the filter
DLL, the merit and the display name.

Using the File -> Render Media File menu you can simulate what most players
do when you open a file and see what filters get used to render it (but many
players, including WMP, add other filters). WME works differently but at
least the part of the graph up to the decoders should be the same, so you
can get an idea about what's going on.

About WMP. Install DivXG400 and configure it to be always loaded and to add
a system tray icon. Now open your file in WMP and you can get a list of the
used filters right-clicking on DivXG400's icon in the system tray.
DirectVobSub or ffdshow should work also.

You can see a list of the installed VCM/ACM codecs in the Audio/Video
Compressors categories in GE or in the multimedia-related applets in the
Control Panel.

I suggest you uninstall every codec pack, MPEG4/*ivX codec and MPEG2/DVD
decoder player until you are back to a clean state.

After that, install the DVD player you like but configure the merit of the
filters so that the Elecard MPEG2 decoder is used by WME. Also, unregister
any other filter by Elecard but the MPEG2 demux and decoder (mpgdec.ax and
mpegdmx.ax). Use DivX own codec for DivX (v5.x) and use ffdshow (the latest
alpha build) for DivX/XviD, configured to use libavcodec (do not make it
decode other things). Install the latest 3ivX if you really need it. Stay
away from codec packs or other codecs.

[~*ThE ßlâCk Kn?GhT*~]

Hay Bro ! Try this , Uninstall all your codecs(codecs programs) and your media players (don't even try modifying Media Player(Microsoft) but do that then install K-Lite Codec Version 2.05 not the latest one 2.25 cos there is an error with that one. Then you can use the Media Encoder againwith no problem and i also recomend anyone else who reads this to use Power DVD 5 (the one which was recomended to me by a good friend of mine McoreD). Any way if there is anything u would like help woth e-mail me on
r_dias@bigpond.com

Regards
~*ThE ßlâCk Kn?GhT*~

[~*McoreD*~]

Hi ~*ThE ßlâCk Kn?GhT*~,
Glad to see you in BetaONE and Welcome to the board!
None of the methods worked dude, I will explain it below:

@All,
Can you imagine how someone feel when he goes through all these trouble uninstalling/reinstalling/formatting, and later come to know that the reason for all these problems is just a one checkbox tick?

If you remember the SnagIt 7.0 thread in Freeware section you should be knowing what has happened. I unticked the Hardware Acceleration in Windows Media Player on the day I installed SnagIt -- to capture a screenshot.

Thanks to all for the ideas.

Cheers,
McoreD

P.S: GraphEdit.exe is a cool utility as described by Alessandro Angeli.

[~*McoreD*~]

I furthur investigated the problem and now my Direct Show Filter are cleaner than ever.
I am in the control of managing DirectShow Filters. Here is an easy way (attached) to Register/Unregister DirectShow Filters.

Some program do not unregister their DirectShow Filters, I kindly request from those developers to please unregister their DirectShow filters upon uninstallation.
Elecard MPEG2 Player supports unregistering their filters, so does Cyberlink PowerDVD. But not Nero Burning ROM. For example, the NeAudio.ax (Nero Audio Decoder) was still registered even after Nero Burning ROM was uninstalled.

Try to get GraphEdit (which in DirectX9 SDK). I have extracted it and its help file. The RAR file of them is just under 44 Kb. I will perhaps attach it in the next post.
Through GraphEdit you can see which DirectShow filters are being used during each video playback. You get the filename of the DirectShow filter, and then use the regsvr32 command to unregister it -- (if you don't wish to use it).

I was able to convert MPG/AVI via WME9 using this procedure. I will add screenshots of the DirectShow Filter Configurations later.

Cheers,
McoreD

[~*McoreD*~]

I wrote a quick guide here.

Uploaded to my ISP Web Space.

Code:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~malith/kb-directshowfix.htm

Good Luck,
McoreD

[war59312]

Quote:

Originally posted by ~*McoreD*~@Jan 20 2004, 08:23 AM
I wrote a quick guide here.

Uploaded to my ISP Web Space.

Code:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~malith/directshowfix.htm

Good Luck,
McoreD

nice..web site dead however...