I have indeo 5 but windows media player thinks i dont

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hi there,

windows media play tells me i need the indeo 5 codec.

so i download it to set it up, but the installation says i cant install it cause i already have a newer version and i would have to erase
WINDOWS\system32\ir50_32.dll from my system and perform the installation again.

So what is going on? I have indeo, but apparently media player cant see it? how do i fix this?

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I have a theory about this: you may be missing registry information, but when the installer saw the newer file, it didn’t install nor update anything, leaving the registry entry missing.
Here’s what you can try (this assumes you have windows NT, 2000, XP, or 2003):
- start the registry editor - go to start, run, then type regedit.exe
- navigate to this key (“folder” HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
- make sure Drivers32 is selected on the left. scroll down. if you can’t see vidc.iv50 with value ir50_32.dll then the registry information is missing. If it’s missing, go to edit, new, string value. name it vidc.iv50 then double click it and for value put ir50_32.dll
- navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc (that should be the folder right above it). Create a new string value named ir50_32.dll then for value put Indeo 5 or whatever you want to name it.
- to check you’ve done things right, go to control panel, sound and audio devices, hardware tab, double click on video codecs, properties tab, and you should see your indeo 5 codec. you can also check in virtualdub by clicking video, compression, and you should see indeo listed

P.S: it’s possible to have the codec installed, but the file truncated (too short - aka incomplete download). Windows Media Player doesn’t know how to read incomplete AVI (except uncompressed ones) even if you have the proper codec. If that’s what you’re experiencing, use an alternate player like avipreview or media player classic.

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Actually I just thought of a simpler way. Find ir50_32.dll and delete it (or rename it ir50_32.dl_ temporarily just in case anything goes wrong). Then run install again.
Duh me!
Sorry about the long post earlier.

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It worked!!! Thank you so much, that would have probably taken me about, oh,,, a year to figure out? i didnt even know regedit.exe existed. So is this the fault of the intial install of the windows system (which was done by IBM)?

thanks so much again, I can get back to what my real task at hand, which is creating avis from code!