Saturday, 16 April 2016

How to get Xvid codec to show up in VirtualDub compression list !


As a beginner user of VirtualDub, a very useful and free application for capturing and processing video, I found certain difficulty in making the Xvid codec to appear in the compression list after having installed it, and after hours of research I reached to the key.
First you should install Xvid codec in your computer: you can download the version for Windows from Xvid Binary Download Page or from Koepi's site.
Next thing you should do is check whether Xvid codec appears in the VirtualDub compression list. In the case it's not in the list, you should check if the Xvid codec is enabled, there is a very useful application to do that: MMCompView v1.10 (for older Windows versions) or InstalledCodec (for recent Windows versions).
Once you've checked Xvid is enabled but it's still not showing up in the VirtualDub list, sometimes it happens that, you can add the Xvid codec manually as it's explained in not an easy way here. Basically the steps you must follow are:
1. Search for "system.ini" file in your PC and open it (keep a copy of it before editing it, just in case...).
2. Inside, look for [drivers32] and below it you'll see a list with all the video codecs installed in your PC.
3. Add vidc.XVID=xvidvfw.dll to the list, and click save file. Then, open VirtualDub and check that the Xvid codec shows up in the video compression list.

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