h264 decoder overpowered by 3ivx

[demise]

Hello,
I've been unable to get video encoded with h264 format to playback on my computer. recently i think i've isolated the problem. When trying to playback the files, & i look at the filters being used, it seems 3ivx is trying to handle the playback, even tho i've installed both x264 decoder & more recently CoreAVC h264 veido decoder 1.2. How can i get those codecs to actually handle the video playback? p.s. i cant even seem to uninstall 3ivx because its not in add/remove programs, so if uninstalling it is the solution i'd need to know the specifics of what registry keys to remove & what files to manually delete. Thanks for anyhelp, i'd really imagine the solution is finding some registry entry to redirect.

[admin]

Perhaps try something like the Radlight Filter Manager and change the merit level of the 3ivX decoder so that the CoreAVC is given preference over it:

http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=839&ssid=0&did=2

[demise]

Ok the problem wasnt 3ivx. I unregistered it entirely & then the playback filters were showing nothing handling it. So then i went to afreecodec.com & got both the most current ffdshow filter which says it can handle h264 format & got the most current h264 decoder from that site. Still, nothing, black screen of h264 video. The filter lists show ffdsow is handling it, but nothing being displayed. With more & more video being encoded in the format, not being able to get it to play is becoming more & more of a problem. I've never had problems installing & using codecs prior to this one, so does anyone have any idea why i cannot playback this format, what could be going wrong?

Posting/attaching info. First a text extraction from mkvinfo (its an mkv file so gspot doesnt show anything);
(MKVInfo) + EBML head at 0
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type: matroska at 5
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type version: 1 at 16
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type read version: 1 at 20
(MKVInfo) + Segment, size 146620713 at 24
(MKVInfo) |+ Seek head at 36
(MKVInfo) | + Seek entry at 41
(MKVInfo) | + Seek ID: 0x15 0x49 0xa9 0x66 (KaxInfo) at 44
(MKVInfo) | + Seek position: 4099 at 51
(MKVInfo) | + Seek entry at 56
(MKVInfo) | + Seek ID: 0x16 0x54 0xae 0x6b (KaxTracks) at 59
(MKVInfo) | + Seek position: 4260 at 66
(MKVInfo) | + Seek entry at 71
(MKVInfo) | + Seek ID: 0x11 0x4d 0x9b 0x74 (KaxSeekHead) at 74
(MKVInfo) | + Seek position: 146608764 at 81
(MKVInfo) | + Seek entry at 88
(MKVInfo) | + Seek ID: 0x1c 0x53 0xbb 0x6b (KaxCues) at 91
(MKVInfo) | + Seek position: 146604274 at 98
(MKVInfo) |+ EbmlVoid (size: 4027) at 105
(MKVInfo) |+ Segment information at 4135
(MKVInfo) | + Timecode scale: 1000000 at 4141
(MKVInfo) | + Muxing application: libebml v0.7.6 + libmatroska v0.8.0 at 4148
(MKVInfo) | + Writing application: mkvmerge v1.6.5 ('Watcher Of The Skies') built on Dec 7 2005 18:53:53 at 4186
(MKVInfo) | + Duration: 1419.848s (00:23:39.848000000) at 4259
(MKVInfo) | + Date: Thu Apr 27 06:43:10 2006 UTC at 4266
(MKVInfo) | + Segment UID: 0xb3 0x4b 0xa4 0xd0 0x56 0xce 0x41 0x93 0x9f 0xd5 0x6a 0x0d 0x77 0x28 0xc9 0xb2 at 4277
(MKVInfo) |+ Segment tracks at 4296
(MKVInfo) | + A track at 4302
(MKVInfo) | + Track number: 1 at 4305
(MKVInfo) | + Track UID: 640955064 at 4308
(MKVInfo) | + Track type: video at 4315
(MKVInfo) | + Enabled: 1 at 4318
(MKVInfo) | + Default flag: 1 at 4321
(MKVInfo) | + Forced flag: 0 at 4324
(MKVInfo) | + Lacing flag: 0 at 4328
(MKVInfo) | + MinCache: 1 at 4331
(MKVInfo) | + Timecode scale: 1.000000 at 4335
(MKVInfo) | + Max BlockAddition ID: 0 at 4343
(MKVInfo) | + Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC at 4347
(MKVInfo) | + Codec decode all: 1 at 4364
(MKVInfo) | + CodecPrivate, length 40 at 4367
(MKVInfo) | + Default duration: 41.710ms (23.975 fps for a video track) at 4410
(MKVInfo) | + Language: und at 4418
(MKVInfo) | + Video track at 4425
(MKVInfo) | + Pixel width: 640 at 4427
(MKVInfo) | + Pixel height: 480 at 4431
(MKVInfo) | + Interlaced: 0 at 4435
(MKVInfo) | + Display width: 640 at 4438
(MKVInfo) | + Display height: 480 at 4443
(MKVInfo) | + A track at 4448
(MKVInfo) | + Track number: 2 at 4451
(MKVInfo) | + Track UID: 2064909747 at 4454
(MKVInfo) | + Track type: audio at 4461
(MKVInfo) | + Enabled: 1 at 4464
(MKVInfo) | + Default flag: 1 at 4467
(MKVInfo) | + Forced flag: 0 at 4470
(MKVInfo) | + Lacing flag: 1 at 4474
(MKVInfo) | + MinCache: 0 at 4477
(MKVInfo) | + Timecode scale: 1.000000 at 4481
(MKVInfo) | + Max BlockAddition ID: 0 at 4489
(MKVInfo) | + Codec ID: A_VORBIS at 4493
(MKVInfo) | + Codec decode all: 1 at 4503
(MKVInfo) | + CodecPrivate, length 4321 at 4506
(MKVInfo) | + Language: und at 8831
(MKVInfo) | + Audio track at 8838
(MKVInfo) | + Sampling frequency: 48000.000000 at 8840
(MKVInfo) | + Channels: 2 at 8846
(MKVInfo) |+ EbmlVoid (size: 1024) at 8849
(MKVInfo) |+ Cluster at 9876

Also attacked is a screen shot from mediaplayerclassic listing the filter in use when playing, & second atttachment is just showing the streams when opened in mkvmerge. P.S. i couldnt find a version of nandub, & vitualdubmod doesnt seem to read the video & shows the fourcc of the codec as "yyyy"

[admin]

Which Matroska splitter are you using? Perhaps try disabling the internal Matroska source filter in MPC and using the latest Haali version instead?

http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv

[demise]

That did the trick. Thank you very much for your timely assistance.