X5 - X6: No DivX

[Ken Berry]

A curious thing I have just noticed is that I no longer have any DivX showing as an AVI option under Custom in either X5 or X6. Don't get me wrong: I know all about the DivX woes of other users here. But on this same computer, I have always been able to update to the latest version of DivX and use it with no problem. Today I updated DivX to the very latest version, and went to make sure it showed in VS, but it was not there in either X5 or X6. Nor can either program "see" DivX clips I have stored on the computer.

A few weeks ago, I was having trouble getting X6 to see the various proDad and Boris filters added in the Ultimate package. That was eventually resolved, but in the process I had to uninstall and reinstall both versions. Something else obviously happened then and I am pretty sure it removed the DivX capacity, since all I have now showing under the AVI Compression option, apart from uncompressed, is DV Types 1 and 2, and the MJPEG codec. I used to have a lot more, including, apart from DivX, Cinepak, Microsoft mpeg-4 V1 and V2, ffdshow, Intel IYUV and XVid.

Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar disappearance, and if so, whether you managed to resolve it.

FYI, I have tried renaming the 15.0 and 16.0 folders in Win 7 C:\Documents and Settings\[My Name]\Application Data\Roaming\Ulead Systems\Corel VideoStudio Pro\ I realise that is mainly to do with repopulating the filters, but thought I would give it a go.

I also re-loaded an older version of DivX which I know had previously worked in X5, though I had never checked it in X6 (8.2.2). That did not work either, including after a reboot.

Also FWIW, I uninstalled XVid, which had previously showed up in X5, and reinstalled it. But it still does not show in either X5 or X6, including after a reboot.

FWIW, I have also checked on another computer on which I have X5 (though not X6 yet) loaded, and that has all the AVI filters mentioned above as missing, plus a variety of others specific to that computer (related to a Matrox program I have loaded on it).

[aljimenez]

My installations still show all codecs Ken, so I suspect something has happened to your Windows codec installs. I am not sure how to correct this; you might try a Google search for help in codecs disappearing from Windows installation, or something like that. I don't think this is a VS problem... Al

[chuckko1966]

When you go to load videos in filename type *.divx
This will get them to showup.


It is just the filter in the file selection box that pops up that keeps you from seeing them.

PS. I opened this account just to answer you. I got lucky and found the answer shortly after searching around for others, and noted you had the same problem.

Regards,
Chuck
aka Cowboy.

[laurentje]

I have had several times "lost" VFW-codecs after installing-uninstalling etc of VSX and VSX2. I have seen it in XP and Vista (so more then 6 years).
To fix this, follow these steps:

1) Search the following key in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]

2)You'll see a list of values containing FOURCC references and CODECs, such as:

"VIDC.I420"="msh263.drv"
"VIDC.IYUV"="iyuv_32.dll"
"vidc.iv50"="ir50_32.dll"
"msacm.l3acm"="D:\WINXP\System32\l3codeca.acm"
"vidc.DIV3"="DivXc32.dll"
"vidc.DIV4"="DivXc32f.dll"
"msacm.divxa32"="DivXa32.acm"
"vidc.DIVX"="DivX.dll"
"vidc.uldx"=""

Look at the empty one (vidc.uldx). Search empty values like this one and delete 'em (they are useless). I think this "vidc.uldx" is coming from Ulead

3) Enjoy your full list of CODECs again!!

Hope you find it useful. And if anyone wishes to publish it in a FAQ, just do it.

[lata]

Hi

chuckko1966, the Div X codec option should be available from the Custom options (AVI) and Make Movie Templates Manager, you do not have to insert/use a Div X video before the codec shows.

Ken, yes I have had similar problems, a long time ago, and was surprised to see only a few codecs in the Avi list, I think usually after messing about with the programs, we tend to do that.
Re-installing seemed to do the trick, but like you don’t use Div X as now I see lots, 12 ish……

[Ken Berry]

I assume you looked at the date of my last post in this thread...?

[lata]

Upps no hehe

I assume by now you have sorted the problem

[Ken Berry]

Hmmm... no! I thought I had on my main editing computer. I only recently installed the latest DivX update (10.1.1) on that computer, but I have just checked in both X7 and X6 on it, and no DivX. Moreover, XVid has again disappeared, as has reference to the Matrox codec I mentioned above. All that show under AVI are DV Types 1 & 2 and MJPEG...

But on another computer -- the one on which I recently installed 8.1 on a clean hard disk -- while I still don't get DivX, I get a variety of other codecs, including XVid. That is in both X7 and X6... So back to the drawing board... Mind you, I won't devote much time to it since I still don't use DivX except for the occasional experiment using the DivX converter...