video codec for MCE 2005

wesley · 6 Sep 2006 at 22:10

hi guys

i need video codec package to play most video formats like WMP, MPG/MPEG, DVD, DIVX/XVID, etc on XP MCE 2005.

spec of my laptop -

Pm 2.0ghz
1GB ram ddr
nvidia 7800GTX 256mb

what about the FFDSHOW or whatever its called? is it good? can you post the url of ffdshow or different codec package you'd recommend?

cheers

david334 · 6 Sep 2006 at 23:04

If you are using MCE To watch tv i suggest Power dvd it works a treat for me
i think powere dvd plays WMP, MPG/MPEG, DVD, DIVX/XVID also

:cool:

wesley · 7 Sep 2006 at 10:05

hi

powerDVD are not free.

i'm very confused with ffdshow, just installed ffdshow on fresh MCE, its only 336kb, and AVI/DIVX videos doesnt work

please help

thanks

kidloco · 7 Sep 2006 at 10:16

I have the following installed installed with MCE and it plays everything great

FFDSHOW

NVIDIA PUREVIDEO DECODER

XVID CODEC

DIVX CODEC

The NVIDIA PUREVIDEO decoder is not free but its the best quality one iv found, and seeing as you have an NVIDIA card it would work a treat

squiffy · 7 Sep 2006 at 10:20

kidloco, if you have FFDSHOW you don't need Xvid or Divx decoders, FFDSHOW will play them both.

I have installed on my HTPC and it plays everything, until it doesn't

FFDSHOW, VP31, RAW set to enabled. SPDIF audio to on for DD & DTS, scaling to native panel. Subtitles set to on when/if foreign film with subs
Realtime Alternative
Quicktime Alternative
Theatretek, options to integrate FFDSHOW scaling for DVD material.

With default FFDSHOW settings, DIVX and Xvid should work, it's only with advanced settings you need to go into config.

Valo · 7 Sep 2006 at 11:05

I use ffdshow for DivX/Xvid, Nvidia PureVideo for DVD playback. I also have AC3 Filter installed to decode audio.

wesley · 7 Sep 2006 at 11:39

Valo said:
I use ffdshow for DivX/Xvid,

can you pls post the url to this ffdshow? i think i used wrong one

sk1n · 8 Sep 2006 at 06:23

VideoLan is the way to go m8, Plays most video formats & comes with codecs built into the program.

"VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. "

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Sk1n

Valo · 9 Sep 2006 at 11:47

wesley said:
can you pls post the url to this ffdshow? i think i used wrong one

Here's the link to the build of ffdshow I'm currently using on my mce box, I've never had a problem with it.

http://cutka.szm.sk/files/ffdshow-20050303-sse.exe

bledd · 9 Sep 2006 at 13:56

seems to be a thread like this every two weeks

dscaler mpeg filters for dvd and tv to work
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Dscaler_MPEG_Filters.htm

ffdshow
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm

sorted

squiffy · 9 Sep 2006 at 14:18

Don't forget resizing option!

I use "resize if" <1680 <1050. That way 1080i/p material is left alone (stuttering occurs when downscaling) but anything lower, which is 99.99% of stuff will be upscaled to 1680x1050.