Help with x264 (2 Viewers)

[hawk2k2]

I have a video which is a .mpv x264 encoded file.

I have ffdshow (18/12/06) install on my HTPC. When i try to play it in media player, it comes up with file type not supported. When I try playing it in VLC it works fine (no surprise here)

When i try and play this file on my laptop with ffdshow installed, it works fine.

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers
Hawk

 

[Inker]

Could be one of two things:
1) Make sure in FFDshow under codecs H.264 is set to libavcodec
2) Make sure you have a splitter installed for the mpv container (are you sure you dont mean mkv?). Try Haali first, but I'm not sure if mpv is supported.

 

[phertiker]

also (and kind of off-topic, sorry), CoreAVC is the best h/x.264 codec I've ever found. Efficient CPU usage, quality is fantastic.

It ain't free, but it's definitely worth the asking price.

If your computer is beefy enough to use VLC or ffdshow's h.264 decoder without dropped frames then CoreAVC might not be worth it (although I think it does a better job with b-frame heavy encodes, stuff like that).