FFDShow 1.3.4534

Thanks for the info Bishop! Solve the problem here!

For those who have problem to install, this is because a process is using ffdshow. The best way to get rid of it is to use a freeware called Process explorer from
http://www.sysinternals .com

Start it then menu Find / Find Dll and type ffdshow
It will show you all the process using ffdshow.ax. Kill them and click "Retry" in the setup.
Note for windows media center : the process ehrecvr.exe may use ffdshow, and if you kill it, it will restart automatically (because this is a service), so after killing it, just click quickly on the retry button in the setup.

My Operating system is Win98 and I've had the same problem with the ffdshow.ax error thing. I've searched my computer for msvcr71.dll and I've found it in C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger ....I've copied it in Windows\System32\Drivers directory and I've tried to install the FDDShow codec.....IT WORKED!!!!! You should do the same.....I have an AMD 400Mhz processor, 192MB RAM & 32MB Video....and I can watch movies smoothly!!!....the ony codec that works great!!!....at least for me

It's undoubtly the best codec, although not perfect. However it handles the most formats and has simultanously a few MB's size only.
That newest version 20060403 installer report me an error with ffdshow.ax i am running win2k3 but with win2k on other computer it works ok.
The best reason is to install ver. 20051201 which should be ok in any case.

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@BiShop:
Thanks for the info, I had that error too with the current build 20060403 and others. Some didn't have the error but you mention the different compilers so that's one of the problems. I copied the msvcr71.dll file from my Winamp folder to the Windows\system32 folder and it worked!

I love this program, it works for me perfectly without changing anything or setting anything. I guess I can get better results when tweaking it, but I have no idea what to set.

@sri: My guess is that you don't have either msvcr71.dll or msvcr80.dll installed in your system (depending on the compiler used), and the installator doesn't supply these files. Get them, and copy them into your %windir%\system32 directory.

When i try to install ffdshow 12 2005 sse file i get the "error while registering ffdshow.ax" error and this is driving me nuts as there seam to be no fix available or atleast the root cause of the problem is not known..
any help will be greatly appriciated... :(

Just note:
ffdshow 2006-02-26 is a useless update, because the latest version in CVS is 2006-01-27

Ouups EXcuse me, bad copy pastle from name
The version buggy is:
ffdshow-20060203-icc-sse.zip
(From remember, bug with encoder intruction SSE2 in Xvid Mode)

Best regarde Jpettebubu

Hello

A bug with the ENCODER, when use XVID ENCODER mode(No bug with Mpeg4 for example, alll is Ok) one error of compiling (Make) of version SSE, use an instruction who CHRASHES
vidtualdubmod, and this error is:
An instruction type SSE2 has crashed Vdm....
And, one intruction SSE2 into the version SSE
, Ahem... ;-)

Pse look the makefile or your Ifdef,....

This version is download into this website and is named:
ffdshow-20051208-gcc4.0.2-sse-x264.nl.exe

Again many thank's for your very good work

Best regards Jpettebubu

there is a bug in this version, all of the versions here, except 2005-12-21 and ealier! so i can't play *.wmv files with media player classic and so on, please fix this bug asap, thanks in advance.

regards bluebebe

> Error opening file for writing:
> C:\Program Files\ffdshow\ffdshow.ax

close any program that may be using the file video players, gspot, etc.

if you can't manually delete that file, something has it open.

I assume this is a good program but because I cannot even get it to install I cannot say anything.

Right from the off I get the message as follows:

Error opening file for writing:

C:\Program Files\ffdshow\ffdshow.ax

Any heads up on how I can further the installation procedure...

Do somebody know where ffdshow will support for MPL2 subtitles format? or give me an email to developers I'll write to them.