Last codecpack

[Philco]

Please info: Last functional codecpack (plus version)? On my system very old "codecpack all in 1" plus ffdshow.

With KernelEx or without KernelEx (CCCP)?

Edited March 31, 2009 by Philco

[Tihiy]

CCCP works well i believe (latest versions with KernelEx).

[Philco]

CCCP works well i believe (latest versions with KernelEx).

Tihiy - THX!

Btw: Visit homepage CCCP project.....

[Drugwash]

I "love" their attitude in regard to 9x:

(9x is no longer supported as it is old and smelly)

I'm fine with GOM Player, thank you.

[Offler]

the latest ffdshow that worked for me is ffdshow-rev2322_20081114 nonMMX nonSSE version. i dont know if the dropped the support completely or by accident, but i think i try some newer versions.

by the way - the Koepis Xvid build still works, i found h264 decoder for all win, and also powerDVD clvsd.ax Mpeg2 decoder works for me.

Edited April 2, 2009 by Offler

[Drugwash]

Have you actually watched an H264 movie? With the decoder I have, GOM crashes instantly and VLC 0.8.5 (later versions are bad) plays with artifacts for a minute or so before freezing.

Edited April 2, 2009 by Drugwash

[Offler]

of course i did

I use Media Player Classic with those codecs and VMR9. i will post the link to the current H264 decoder i use if i found it again. i just have to be careful. usage of H264 decoder alongside with latest DivX is not a good choice. use Xvid instead.

[Drugwash]

I had to install DivX 5.2.1 against my will, for certain formats that were not recognized by GOM or Xvid (such as Div3-SlowMotion). The H264 codec I have is the one found by GOM (vssh3dec.exe from Videosoft, v2.2 beta); I had another one - a VfW or something - and it wouldn't work either; maybe my videocard and/or driver is the problem; can't install a newer driver than the latest available at MSI (45.32, if I'm not mistaken), otherwise I lose Direct3D. I don't think I ever managed to use VMR9 with this card.

[Offler]

this one works for me

http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/

[Drugwash]

Hehe... thanks. Coincidentally, I have found the same build at free-codecs.com, soon after posting the previous post.

Thing is, GOM has a quirk somewhere in that it doesn't automatically fall back to an external codec if it can't find/use the internal one. I usually keep the Quick play option enabled, which stands for "use internal codecs" and was hoping it'd do that, but apparently it doesn't because it returned an unknown codec error, so I had to disable quick play and then it picked up the x264 codec.

Unfortunately, the compression seems to be too high and my machine can't process the file in real time (well, there's some extra load on the CPU from other app and some IRQ sharing/conflict between network card and sound card that makes the sound stutter when download speed is high) so the playback was extremely choppy and with artifacts, but the important thing is it works.