How do you make Winamp handle .flv files?

pile0nades · 20th August 2006, 04:35

When I download Flash Video files from youtube, I have to use MPlayer to play them. Is there a plugin way to play them in Winamp?

Edit: I have FFDShow installed. FLV is set to libavcodec but that doesn't work. libavcodec is the only option other than disabled.

Solution

J_Darnley · 20th August 2006, 14:39

Add ;flv to the DirectShow Decoder extension list.

Preferences -> Input plugins -> Nullsoft DirectShow Decoder [in_dshow.dll] -> Configure -> Add ;flv to the end of the list of other extensions.

pile0nades · 20th August 2006, 15:46

I tried that and it didn't work.

Koopa · 20th August 2006, 17:06

It just work, if you've installed the needed DirectShow filter for Flash files.

DJ Egg · 20th August 2006, 18:42

How to play YouTube/Google Flash Videos (FLV) in Winamp:

For Winamp 5.54+

1. Make sure Nullsoft Flash Decoder (in_flv.dll) is checkmarked on the Choose Components page in the Winamp Installer Options.

2. Install the 'Additional FLV Decoder' from the latest Essentials Pack

Note that most FLV files from Google use the H.263 video codec, and that the additional decoder from the EP is an H.263 decoder (Winamp\System\f263.w5s)

You still won't be able to play FLV files encoded with the newer H.264 codec by using this method.
H.264 support (H.264 video in MP4, AVI, MKV & FLV containers) is one of the features unlocked by purchasing a Winamp Pro license.

For Winamp 5.53 and earlier:

1) Download and install the FLV Splitter (required to demux the FLV container)

FLV Splitter | mirror | Direct Download

2) Install the latest 32-bit version of FFDShow, which is required to decode FLV content.

Make sure 'FLV1', 'VP6', 'VP6F', 'H.264/AVC' and 'H.263' are set to 'libavcodec' in:
Start > Programs > ffdshow > Video decoder config > Codecs page.

If it says 'disabled' next to FLV1, VP6, VP6F/FLV4, H.264/AVC or H.263 (+), click on it and change it from 'disabled' to 'libavcodec' via the drop-down menu.

3) Add ;FLV to the Extension List in:

Winamp > Prefs (Ctrl+P) > Plugins > Input > DirectShow (in_dshow.dll) > config

so it now looks something like:

MPG;MPEG;M2V;AVI;FLV

You will now have playback support for FLV in Winamp.

More in-depth instructions/info here

IMPORTANT
If you are using the DirectShow Decoder workaround with Winamp 5.51 or higher, you will need to disable the Nullsoft VP6 FLV Decoder (in_flv.dll) first: Further instructions & workarounds

____________________________________________________________________

ps. for GVI (google video) just use GVI2AVI (more info) which automatically strips the "goog" info out of the headers and changes the extension to .avi (note, requires .NET Framework 2.x to be installed).

Bubba Smith · 20th August 2006, 21:57

Very good, Egg! Works beautifully.

I downloaded a couple of 'test' .flv files, and all is working well, following your above instructions.

pile0nades · 21st August 2006, 05:10

This works perfectly, thank you DJ Egg!

Edit: one tiny, insignificant little thing, is that flv files dont show the time in the Winamp playlist, but invididual files show the time when I play them. Do you know why this is?

Koopa · 21st August 2006, 12:26

Maybe a limititaion of the splitter/decoder.

DJ Egg · 21st August 2006, 13:46

Yup, probably. Note how there's also no bitrate/bps/frequency Info in Alt+3.

The pledit reads metadata info in the headers to get the file time, so if it doesn't show it means that the file format/splitter/decoder combo doesn't provide Winamp with that information. Whereas the main window shows the length/time of the actual file after it's been properly scanned for playback. Or something along those lines anyway.

The main thing is that flv playback works, heh.

[Edit]

It's actually in_dshow that doesn't support those things.
Alas, it was only written to support AVI and MPEG (and originally, also WMV) container formats. The only other format it will show tracklength/bitrate/etc for is WAV.

Alas(2), we aren't licensed to play any other formats.
All of H.264/AVC/MPEG4, Sorenson H.263/SVQ1/3, QT RLE/PZA/8BPS/MOV, etc, require a (fairly costly) license for us to be able to provide official native decoding support.
So basically, support for these codecs wasn't added to the in_dshow specification.

[Edit #2]

The above-referenced limitation is fixed/addressed in Winamp 5.51 :-)

seyss · 15th September 2006, 04:49

dj egg you are a god man.. u know everything

IQpierce · 16th October 2006, 22:00

Any chance on someone making a Winamp Plug-in such that I could stick a YouTube URL into Winamp and have it automatically start playing the video through winamp?

This would be nice so that I could use Winamp's features (like always-on-top with Video Dominator, and of course my global hotkeys to pause, etc.) to use on any YouTube videos I might watch.

Anyone know of anything like this?

kraps · 24th November 2006, 01:51

Done all that: flv added to in_dshow, flv splitter registered, flv1 set to libavcodec, and I'm still getting blank video window. Tested a few media players: some play it ok, some don't. WinAmp is, unfortunately, the latter.
I'd really like to know what's going on.

Using klmegacodecpack 1.61
and winamp 5.32

bishely · 7th December 2006, 06:25

yup. im having the same prob. dedicated flv player handles them no probs, but media player classic and winamp give me sound only... this is surely something simple and obvious, but im retarded and cant work out what im not doing right...

help would be much appreciated!
Tx

anunea · 10th January 2007, 01:28

Wauuu

Ya funciona y se puede ver *.FLV

1. Bajar (descargar) Total Video Converter (T.V.C)

2. Instalar T.V.C

3. Desinstalar T.V.C

4. Disfrutar de los videos *.FLV en WinAmp

HG

P.D. Los codecs (vp6dec.ax, FLV.ax, QuickTime.ax, RealMediaSplitter.ax, Mpeg2DecFilter.ax, ac3filter.cpl) de T.V.C. quedan instalados en PC y utilizados por WinAmp.

DJ Egg · 10th January 2007, 04:10

Quote:

Originally posted by DJ Egg
youtube/google flash videos play fine for me by adding ;FLV to the Extension List in in_dshow config (prefs > plugins > input) and using the FLV Splitter to demux and ffdshow to decode (yes, make sure FLV1 is set to libavcodec in ffdshow video decoder config).

To install the splitter, extract it to your %system% dir, then go to:
Start > Run
Type: regsvr32 FLVSplitter.ax
Hit Enter

(note: you might need to install 7Zip to extract from .7z)

More info here

Note: %system% refers to wherever the system dir is for your Windows OS.
eg. the default for WinXP is usually "C:\Windows\System32"
for Win2k it's "C:\WinNT\System32"
for Win9x/ME it's "C:\Windows\System"

giulianoxy · 5th April 2007, 15:33

IÂ´ve even try the line in the plugin>input>in_dhow.dll and the confusing configuration about the reg32it didnÂ´t work and the T.V.C. was the solution, T.V.C. kicks ASS!!!!!!

DJ Egg · 5th April 2007, 16:30

My solution is better :-p

If you don't understand it, just ask, and I'll type it out in a simple step-by-step format.

datsunrobbie · 6th April 2007, 17:15

DJ Egg - your solutio worked great when I installed last night, but this morning I restarted my laptop and can't play flv via winamp at all. reinstalled everything, still dead - any hints?

dbieon12 · 8th April 2007, 04:04

I use K-Lite Codec Pack which does not allow me to edit the ffdshow configuration settings. So I cannot add the proper elements to the config. Is there a way around that?

dbieon12 · 8th April 2007, 04:30

Well, I got it to work without messing with the ffdshow configuration. Maybe when I ran the little code statement it automatically changed it. As a matter of fact, the FLV1 does appear in the configuration window. But there is a little green line at the bottom of the video playback window. Is this normal?

thanks

datsunrobbie · 9th April 2007, 13:28

I installed TVC and Winamp started working again... weird, but as long as it works I'll take it

Codplay · 9th April 2007, 20:15

DJ Egg - just had to register and say thanks. Your solution works like a charm for me!

Ryokukitsune · 8th May 2007, 13:10

well I have the videos playing but I seem to be getting all audio playing in mono. I'm not sure how to upmix or adjust the config to fix it I just know that mono music videos give me a head ach...

J_Darnley · 9th May 2007, 11:55

Most FLVs are of shockingly poor quality. The file probably only has mono audio. You could look at the audio description in Winamp or FFDShow (if you use it).

YouTube certainly reencodes everything it gets sent using VP6 at whatever bitrate they use, I think it's 200 kbit/s, and mono MP3 at 64 kbit/s.

Moonlight Gambl · 19th May 2007, 16:36

I didn't really know what I was doing so I just blindly, but strictly, followed the above instructions.
- and I too suffered failure!
But not because of the of the instructions.

It appears that there are two versions of the FLV Splitter; one for Windows 98, (me), and one for Windows XP.

Both versions are available from:

http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/flv.shtml

I can now play FLV files in Winamp!

(Along the way I also discovered several free FLV converters at download. com along the way.)

Zoyx · 7th June 2007, 01:33

The instruction worked fine for WinXP. No such luck with Vista32. One difference was that I installed the Vista Codec pack on the Vista machine, and the K-lite codec pack on the WinXP machine.

ShinoRagnar · 13th August 2007, 01:21

I failed to install the FLVSplitter.ax in vista. Found this solution (by gooogling a lot)

Start menu -> Acessories -> Command prompt -> Right click, run as administrator

Write: "C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\System32\FLVSplitter.ax"

(withot qoute-marks)

Worked for me =)

Tarantini · 17th August 2007, 10:51

Thanks its working for me

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rawnutz · 25th August 2007, 04:47

Quote:

Originally posted by DJ Egg
How to play YouTube/Google Flash Videos (FLV) in Winamp:

1) Download the FLV Splitter (required to demux the FLV container)

Win2k/XP/Vista | Win9x

To install the FLV Splitter, extract FLVSplitter.ax from the .7z archive

Note: you might need to install 7Zip to extract from .7z

and save FLVSplitter.ax to your %system% dir

%system% refers to wherever the system dir is for your Windows OS, eg.
for WinXP it's "C:\Windows\System32"
for Win2k it's "C:\WinNT\System32"
for Win9x it's "C:\Windows\System"

Then go to: Start > Run
Type: regsvr32 FLVSplitter.ax
Hit Enter

This will register the FLVSplitter on your system

2) If you don't already have it installed, install FFDShow to decode FLV content.

Make sure 'FLV1' is set to 'libavcodec' in:
Start > Programs > ffdshow > Video decoder config > Codecs page.

If it says 'disabled' next to FLV1, click on it and change it from 'disabled' to 'libavcodec' via the drop-down menu.

3) Add ;FLV to the Extension List in:

Winamp > Prefs (Ctrl+P) > Plugins > Input > DirectShow (in_dshow.dll) > config

so it now looks something like:

MPG;MPEG;M2V;AVI;FLV

You will now have playback support for FLV in Winamp.

More in-depth instructions/info here

____________________________________________________________________

ps. for GVI (google video) just use GVI2AVI (more info) to automatically strip the "goog" info out of the headers and change the extension to .avi (note, requires .NET Framework 2.x to be installed).

I DID THAT AND MY VIDEO COMES OUT FLIPPED VERTICALLY

PLEASE ADVISE

jmatthews112 · 25th August 2007, 05:03

In the DirectShow config, have you tried to select "Vertically flip Windows Media Videos"? If it was already selected, deselect it. In either case, try playing the video again.

rawnutz · 25th August 2007, 05:17

Quote:

Originally posted by jmatthews112
In the DirectShow config, have you tried to select "Vertically flip Windows Media Videos"? If it was already selected, deselect it. In either case, try playing the video again.

its deselected... but i havent restarted the computer since then.

jmatthews112 · 25th August 2007, 05:26

ok - sorry for the confusion.

please select the "vertically flip WMVs" option, press OK, and then try to play the video again.

rawnutz · 25th August 2007, 05:28

Quote:

Originally posted by jmatthews112
ok - sorry for the confusion.

please select the "vertically flip WMVs" option, press OK, and then try to play the video again.

playback is still off sync and pixelized/with a lot of artifacts

jmatthews112 · 25th August 2007, 05:37

is it right side up though? you may want to alter the options in preferences > video to match your screen size, to choose to sync to screen refresh rate, and to turn overlay on.

rawnutz · 25th August 2007, 05:40

powerplayer doesnt do flv?

badda · 11th November 2007, 17:52

I tried the above instructions - everything worked out fine, except, that all FLV files show upside down :-( What am I doing wrong?
I checked that option "Vertically flip Windows Media videos" in Direct Show decoder confgi, but it does not seem to have an effect.

DJ Egg · 26th November 2007, 05:59

Late reply...

Upside down/flipped usually means that you're either not using the recommended FLV Splitter or the latest ffdshow, ie. probably some other system splitter/codec/filter is handling/decoding the files.

What does it show in File Info (Alt+3)?

badda · 26th November 2007, 21:02

The "Info" Section is showing nothing,
the "Currently used filters" shows:
- MPEG Layer-3 Decoder
- VP6 Decompressor

DJ Egg · 26th November 2007, 21:08

That means you've:
1) not installed the FLV Splitter
2) not configured latest ffdshow to handle VP6 (and probably neither FLV1 or H.263)

Please read & follow the instructions again.

badda · 27th November 2007, 08:41

Hi Egg,
thanks for the reply. I did the whole procedure again, but now the Display is really awful. Not only is it upside down, but it is full of artifacts. Now it is showing in the File Info Dialog:
ffdshow Video Decoder
MPEG Layer-3 Decoder

No FLV-Splitter :-(
What am I doing wrong? I downloaded the FLV splitter, and registered it as described above. I even get a confirmation message "DllRegisterServer in FLVSplitter.ax succeeded".

20th August 2006, 04:35	#1
pile0nades Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Florida, US Posts: 88	How do you make Winamp handle .flv files? When I download Flash Video files from youtube, I have to use MPlayer to play them. Is there a plugin way to play them in Winamp? Edit: I have FFDShow installed. FLV is set to libavcodec but that doesn't work. libavcodec is the only option other than disabled. Solution http://pile0nades.wordpress.com/ Last edited by pile0nades; 20th August 2006 at 05:10.

20th August 2006, 15:46	#3
pile0nades Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Florida, US Posts: 88	I tried that and it didn't work. http://pile0nades.wordpress.com/

20th August 2006, 17:06	#4
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20th August 2006, 18:42	#5
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 36,136	How to play YouTube/Google Flash Videos (FLV) in Winamp: For Winamp 5.54+ 1. Make sure Nullsoft Flash Decoder (in_flv.dll) is checkmarked on the Choose Components page in the Winamp Installer Options. 2. Install the 'Additional FLV Decoder' from the latest Essentials Pack Note that most FLV files from Google use the H.263 video codec, and that the additional decoder from the EP is an H.263 decoder (Winamp\System\f263.w5s) You still won't be able to play FLV files encoded with the newer H.264 codec by using this method. H.264 support (H.264 video in MP4, AVI, MKV & FLV containers) is one of the features unlocked by purchasing a Winamp Pro license. For Winamp 5.53 and earlier: 1) Download and install the FLV Splitter (required to demux the FLV container) FLV Splitter \| mirror \| Direct Download 2) Install the latest 32-bit version of FFDShow, which is required to decode FLV content. Make sure 'FLV1', 'VP6', 'VP6F', 'H.264/AVC' and 'H.263' are set to 'libavcodec' in: Start > Programs > ffdshow > Video decoder config > Codecs page. If it says 'disabled' next to FLV1, VP6, VP6F/FLV4, H.264/AVC or H.263 (+), click on it and change it from 'disabled' to 'libavcodec' via the drop-down menu. 3) Add ;FLV to the Extension List in: Winamp > Prefs (Ctrl+P) > Plugins > Input > DirectShow (in_dshow.dll) > config so it now looks something like: MPG;MPEG;M2V;AVI;FLV You will now have playback support for FLV in Winamp. More in-depth instructions/info here IMPORTANT If you are using the DirectShow Decoder workaround with Winamp 5.51 or higher, you will need to disable the Nullsoft VP6 FLV Decoder (in_flv.dll) first: Further instructions & workarounds ____________________________________________________________________ ps. for GVI (google video) just use GVI2AVI (more info) which automatically strips the "goog" info out of the headers and changes the extension to .avi (note, requires .NET Framework 2.x to be installed). Playlist \| Twitter \| Albums

21st August 2006, 05:10	#7
pile0nades Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Florida, US Posts: 88	This works perfectly, thank you DJ Egg! Edit: one tiny, insignificant little thing, is that flv files dont show the time in the Winamp playlist, but invididual files show the time when I play them. Do you know why this is? http://pile0nades.wordpress.com/

20th August 2006, 14:39	#2
J_Darnley Forum King Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Belgium, Europe Posts: 3,625	Add ;flv to the DirectShow Decoder extension list. Preferences -> Input plugins -> Nullsoft DirectShow Decoder [in_dshow.dll] -> Configure -> Add ;flv to the end of the list of other extensions. Winamp ATF Reference — My cPro timer widget — My port of AVS Do NOT email me with general tech support questions.

20th August 2006, 21:57	#6
Bubba Smith Major Dude Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bubbaville, USA Posts: 599	Very good, Egg! Works beautifully. I downloaded a couple of 'test' .flv files, and all is working well, following your above instructions.

21st August 2006, 12:26	#8
Koopa 16-Bit Moderator Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 4,349	Maybe a limititaion of the splitter/decoder. My Winamp Info Report \| My Winamp Backup Log \| My WACUP Info Report Own Projects: \| Winamp Tray Control Icon Pack v3.5.3 \| Winamp Backup Tool v3.6.0 \| >> Winamp Info Tool v6.1.0 << \| German Translations: \| Offizielle Deutsche Winamp Sprachdatei v5.66 \| Offizielle Deutsche Winamp Sprachdatei Plus Version 5.666 Useful Winamp Plug-ins: \| SNESAmp \| 64th Note \| NotSo FatSo \| Highly Experimental PSF Player \| Yar Matey! Playlist Copier v1.12 \|

21st August 2006, 13:46	#9
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 36,136	Yup, probably. Note how there's also no bitrate/bps/frequency Info in Alt+3. The pledit reads metadata info in the headers to get the file time, so if it doesn't show it means that the file format/splitter/decoder combo doesn't provide Winamp with that information. Whereas the main window shows the length/time of the actual file after it's been properly scanned for playback. Or something along those lines anyway. The main thing is that flv playback works, heh. [Edit] It's actually in_dshow that doesn't support those things. Alas, it was only written to support AVI and MPEG (and originally, also WMV) container formats. The only other format it will show tracklength/bitrate/etc for is WAV. Alas(2), we aren't licensed to play any other formats. All of H.264/AVC/MPEG4, Sorenson H.263/SVQ1/3, QT RLE/PZA/8BPS/MOV, etc, require a (fairly costly) license for us to be able to provide official native decoding support. So basically, support for these codecs wasn't added to the in_dshow specification. [Edit #2] The above-referenced limitation is fixed/addressed in Winamp 5.51 :-) Playlist \| Twitter \| Albums

15th September 2006, 04:49	#10
seyss Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Brazil Posts: 143	dj egg you are a god man.. u know everything

16th October 2006, 22:00	#11
IQpierce Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: TX Posts: 2	Any chance on someone making a Winamp Plug-in such that I could stick a YouTube URL into Winamp and have it automatically start playing the video through winamp? This would be nice so that I could use Winamp's features (like always-on-top with Video Dominator, and of course my global hotkeys to pause, etc.) to use on any YouTube videos I might watch. Anyone know of anything like this?

24th November 2006, 01:51	#12
kraps Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 4	flv still not visible Done all that: flv added to in_dshow, flv splitter registered, flv1 set to libavcodec, and I'm still getting blank video window. Tested a few media players: some play it ok, some don't. WinAmp is, unfortunately, the latter. I'd really like to know what's going on. Using klmegacodecpack 1.61 and winamp 5.32

7th December 2006, 06:25	#13
bishely Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: uk Posts: 1	yup. im having the same prob. dedicated flv player handles them no probs, but media player classic and winamp give me sound only... this is surely something simple and obvious, but im retarded and cant work out what im not doing right... help would be much appreciated! Tx

10th January 2007, 01:28	#14
anunea Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1	Wauuu Ya funciona y se puede ver .FLV 1. Bajar (descargar) Total Video Converter (T.V.C) 2. Instalar T.V.C 3. Desinstalar T.V.C 4. Disfrutar de los videos .FLV en WinAmp HG P.D. Los codecs (vp6dec.ax, FLV.ax, QuickTime.ax, RealMediaSplitter.ax, Mpeg2DecFilter.ax, ac3filter.cpl) de T.V.C. quedan instalados en PC y utilizados por WinAmp.

5th April 2007, 15:33	#16
giulianoxy Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1	THANK YOU anunea! IÂ´ve even try the line in the plugin>input>in_dhow.dll and the confusing configuration about the reg32it didnÂ´t work and the T.V.C. was the solution, T.V.C. kicks ASS!!!!!!

5th April 2007, 16:30	#17
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 36,136	My solution is better :-p If you don't understand it, just ask, and I'll type it out in a simple step-by-step format. Playlist \| Twitter \| Albums

6th April 2007, 17:15	#18
datsunrobbie Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2	DJ Egg - your solutio worked great when I installed last night, but this morning I restarted my laptop and can't play flv via winamp at all. reinstalled everything, still dead - any hints?

8th April 2007, 04:04	#19
dbieon12 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 13	umm I use K-Lite Codec Pack which does not allow me to edit the ffdshow configuration settings. So I cannot add the proper elements to the config. Is there a way around that?

8th April 2007, 04:30	#20
dbieon12 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 13	dfs Well, I got it to work without messing with the ffdshow configuration. Maybe when I ran the little code statement it automatically changed it. As a matter of fact, the FLV1 does appear in the configuration window. But there is a little green line at the bottom of the video playback window. Is this normal? thanks

9th April 2007, 13:28	#21
datsunrobbie Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2	I installed TVC and Winamp started working again... weird, but as long as it works I'll take it

9th April 2007, 20:15	#22
Codplay Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: behind a small shadow... Posts: 3	DJ Egg - just had to register and say thanks. Your solution works like a charm for me!

8th May 2007, 13:10	#23
Ryokukitsune Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	well I have the videos playing but I seem to be getting all audio playing in mono. I'm not sure how to upmix or adjust the config to fix it I just know that mono music videos give me a head ach...

9th May 2007, 11:55	#24
J_Darnley Forum King Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Belgium, Europe Posts: 3,625	Most FLVs are of shockingly poor quality. The file probably only has mono audio. You could look at the audio description in Winamp or FFDShow (if you use it). YouTube certainly reencodes everything it gets sent using VP6 at whatever bitrate they use, I think it's 200 kbit/s, and mono MP3 at 64 kbit/s. Winamp ATF Reference — My cPro timer widget — My port of AVS Do NOT email me with general tech support questions.

19th May 2007, 16:36	#25
Moonlight Gambl Junior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 1	I didn't really know what I was doing so I just blindly, but strictly, followed the above instructions. - and I too suffered failure! But not because of the of the instructions. It appears that there are two versions of the FLV Splitter; one for Windows 98, (me), and one for Windows XP. Both versions are available from: http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/flv.shtml I can now play FLV files in Winamp! (Along the way I also discovered several free FLV converters at download. com along the way.)

7th June 2007, 01:33	#26
Zoyx Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1	The instruction worked fine for WinXP. No such luck with Vista32. One difference was that I installed the Vista Codec pack on the Vista machine, and the K-lite codec pack on the WinXP machine.

13th August 2007, 01:21	#27
ShinoRagnar Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1	Vista I failed to install the FLVSplitter.ax in vista. Found this solution (by gooogling a lot) Start menu -> Acessories -> Command prompt -> Right click, run as administrator Write: "C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\System32\FLVSplitter.ax" (withot qoute-marks) Worked for me =)

17th August 2007, 10:51	#28
Tarantini Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1	Thanks its working for me _________________ Cheap Mp3 Players

25th August 2007, 05:03	#30
jmatthews112 Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,661	In the DirectShow config, have you tried to select "Vertically flip Windows Media Videos"? If it was already selected, deselect it. In either case, try playing the video again. The Winamp.INI File for Dummies Tips and Tricks for MSVCRT.dll Errors

25th August 2007, 05:26	#32
jmatthews112 Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,661	ok - sorry for the confusion. please select the "vertically flip WMVs" option, press OK, and then try to play the video again. The Winamp.INI File for Dummies Tips and Tricks for MSVCRT.dll Errors

25th August 2007, 05:37	#34
jmatthews112 Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,661	is it right side up though? you may want to alter the options in preferences > video to match your screen size, to choose to sync to screen refresh rate, and to turn overlay on. The Winamp.INI File for Dummies Tips and Tricks for MSVCRT.dll Errors

25th August 2007, 05:40	#35
rawnutz Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 7	powerplayer doesnt do flv?

11th November 2007, 17:52	#36
badda Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 4	FLV videos upside-down I tried the above instructions - everything worked out fine, except, that all FLV files show upside down :-( What am I doing wrong? I checked that option "Vertically flip Windows Media videos" in Direct Show decoder confgi, but it does not seem to have an effect. Last edited by badda; 11th November 2007 at 19:38.

26th November 2007, 21:02	#38
badda Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 4	The "Info" Section is showing nothing, the "Currently used filters" shows: - MPEG Layer-3 Decoder - VP6 Decompressor

26th November 2007, 21:08	#39
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 36,136	That means you've: 1) not installed the FLV Splitter 2) not configured latest ffdshow to handle VP6 (and probably neither FLV1 or H.263) Please read & follow the instructions again. Playlist \| Twitter \| Albums

27th November 2007, 08:41	#40
badda Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 4	Hi Egg, thanks for the reply. I did the whole procedure again, but now the Display is really awful. Not only is it upside down, but it is full of artifacts. Now it is showing in the File Info Dialog: ffdshow Video Decoder MPEG Layer-3 Decoder No FLV-Splitter :-( What am I doing wrong? I downloaded the FLV splitter, and registered it as described above. I even get a confirmation message "DllRegisterServer in FLVSplitter.ax succeeded".