cinepak win2003 std

Hi, does anybody know how to install cinepak codec onto windows 2003 standard server?

I expected it to be similar to WinXp, however for the life of me I cannot figure out what to do with the .DLL file?!?!?

anyway, thank you very much for reading, and if you can help, please please please tell me!!!

thanks

justin

I’m going to take a wild guess and assume Windows 2003 Server uses a similar structure as Windows 2000 and XP (registry, kernel, etc.)
I assume you got your hands on the file iccvid.dll.
Move that file to your system32 folder (windows/system32 or winnt/system32, whichever Windows 2003 uses).
Then run the registry editor - go to start, run, then regedit.exe. Navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Drivers32. If you scroll down a little on the right you’ll notice the pattern string value name:vidc.[fourcc] with value:[name of codec file]. Go to edit, pick new, string value. Name it vidc.cvid. Then double click it and for value put iccvid.dll.
Next, go to the key (“folder”) just above that (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/drivers.desc). Create another string value named iccvid.dll. Then for value put in “Cinepak Codec by Radius Inc.", without quotes.
To check you’ve done this right, go to your control panel, sound and multimedia, hardware tab, and video codecs (at the very bottom). You should see Cinepak listed. Another way to check is to run virtualdub, then go to video, compression. Cinepak will be listed on the left.

i’m having the same question, but i don’t see this vidc.[fourcc] in the registry that you say to look for. there’s tons of vidc’s but none of them match that. i’m running windows server 2k3 and i’m not sure what to do to get the cinepak codec installed properly, though i have the .dll for it

nevermind, i got it

It did work!

Thanks alot

Thanks!!!

I’m seeing a lot of replies to this post. Can someone confirm that Microsoft stopped putting Cinepak in Windows as of Windows 2003?

I don’t think so.
In my case with uninstalling Quick time (most probably) all standart codecs have been gone - including all versions of Intel Indeo

thank you.. worked awesome

Thanks you so much, this have been a total headace until now.

WOW! Thanks! I’ve been trying to get iccvid.dll working for so long! Now I can play some old favorite games on my Windows 2003 machine.

PEACE,
Tim

that’s totally amazing and kickin' a**. I would have never thought it could be so easy to find a solution... Geek nature is so perfect. ;-)

Anonymous: if i ever meet ya IRL, you have a six-o-pack of beer (only quality european stuff, not that american coloured water). Close Combat: Cross of Iron wont run on win2k3 server because of some old codecs lacking, thus returning on startup this error: “unable to get format on stream”

I will post a thread at Close Combat Cross of Irons forum, pointing to this solution, thankx again mate!!

Thankyou... Great Solutions.....

Way to bump a dead thread guys... *sigh*

Anyhow, there’s a simpler way to do it now. Just follow the instructions on this page and run the registry script. The registry script does all the steps I mentioned above automatically so you don’t have to do it by hand with regedit.

I am runnig Windows Server 2003 64 bit and I found I needed to do the following to get it to work.

copy the iccvid.dll. I was not sure where to put it so I put in the c:\windows, c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\syswow64

I am not sure which is the right one.

I needed to add the following two keys.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Drivers32/vidc.cvid = iccvid.dll

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/drivers.desc/iccvid.dll = Cinepak Codec by Radius Inc.

Thanks for everyones help.