I believe it was the ffdshow codec pack.

The main difference between develop and release version is that the latter is slightly faster, and runs in a different folder. It also doesn't load the default plugins from the acknex_plugins folder.

Ok. Thanks.

I'll try to deinstall our codec pack and install ffdshow.
I hope to get all codecs clearly removed ... doesn't work that good under windows sometimes.

Though I still can't understand why the k-lite codec pack doesn't work ... really strange.

I've found what's going wrong with k-lite.

There a config tool named:

ffdshow video decoder

There's under "DirectShow control" an entry in which application ffdshow doesn't start and in which it is allowed to start.

By default ffdshow should ask with every application that isn't listed here if the codec should be used or not ... but it seems that at this point the engine crashes.

If I disable the checkbox for "use ffdshow only in" everything works fine.

Maybe you could check why the engine crashes when this option is enabled?

Regards,
Pegamode.

I can't reproduce this either. It doesn't crash. Of course you'll see the dialog only in window mode, it does not work in fullscreen mode.

I'm running the app in window mode, but there's no dialog at all.
Strange.

Unfortunately "use ffdshow only in" is activated by default. I think if there isn't a way to add our app automatically to this list, the CODEC isn't useable for us.

It's not activated by default. And it works as expected when it's activated.

Maybe you have a different ffdshow version, or a beta? Have you tried the recent version?

We use the one in the k-lite codec pack.

Which one do you use?

There's the original ffdshow codec by Milan Cutka (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/), but it's development seems to be frozen.

And I found an unofficial one here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/

Regards,
Pegamode.

We've used the codec from sourceforge. Apparently the Codec bug is in the k-lite version only, not in the sourceforge version.