| 22 Sep 2004 03:36 pm |
ijoed Guest | Hello,
I got a problem playing an .avi video. It says I need an SP54 video codec. I have researched and figured out I need a file called sp5x_32.dll to play this file. Now I got the file in my windows/system folder. However, the stupid file still cannot associate with the codec file it’s supposed to use, and I’m still not able to play the video. It is as if I had done nothing. How do I associate the sp5x_32.dll file to the avi file I’m trying to play?
Thanks in advance for your generous help.
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| 23 Sep 2004 12:39 am |
anonymous Guest | Jester posted a solution to this several months back
http://www.moviecodec.com/video/sp44.html
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| 25 Sep 2004 10:19 am |
ijoed Guest | Anonymous, all the explanations before didn’t explain what to do after we download the video codecs. That’s what I was trying to figure out.
Fortunately, I have figured it out. Here’s how to do it for those who’s having the problem. By the way, I have Win XP.
Go to Device Manager. Under Sound, video, and game controllers, there is a line called Video Codecs. If you click the Properties, you can see all the video codecs installed in your computer. The problem was I did not see my desired video codecs in there (sp5x_32.dll in my case). Make a note of a couple other video codecs already installed in there.
Go to the Registry, by going to Start-Run-type in “regedit”, and enter. Search for the other video codecs files that you have noted in the registry. I found them under My Computer\HKEY_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32. Add a string by right clicking on the window, New-String value, and type in VIDC.SP54. Then right click on the new string line you just created. Add binary value. Enter sp5x_32.dll. Done. You should be able to play your .avi videos now.
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| 25 Sep 2004 10:42 am |
anonymous Guest | It’s wonderful that you found how to manually associate fourcc with the codec files by manipulating the registry (btw I’m the one who posted the procedure in earlier threads - I think my first post on that topic was in thread 2545). My point was that by trying jester’s link
http://www.logitech.com/pub/techsupport/quickcam/cs510/cs510_patch.exe
the SP54 codec would install automatically, with registry information and all.
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