A customer complained on video playback problems which had symptoms of software compatibility issue. At certain operation modes software froze leaving the only option to kill process and restart. I appeared that the system has a third party DLL installed, a new hero name’s – picapmk4.dll. The DLL registers itself as Video for Windows codec [...]
Posts Tagged ‘codec’
Another VFW/DirectShow Pain in the Ass: picapmk4.dll
Posted: 21st July 2011 by Roman in Seriously, VideoTags: codec, compatibility, crapware, DirectShow, issue, picapmk4, vfw, Video
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Utility Clearance: Enumerate VCM Codecs
Posted: 25th April 2011 by Roman in UtilitiesTags: C++, codec, icm, Source, utility, vcm, Video
EnumerateVcmCodecs uses ICOpen API to enuerate available codecs and prints out information obtained from enumeration. 32-bit and 64-bit versions respectively enumerate codecs available for the platform (lists may vary because the codecs are actually provided by different DLLs, built for respective platform). szName fccType: 0×63646976 (vidc), fccHandler 0×64697663 (cvid) dwFlags 0 dwVersion 0×0, dwVersionICM 0×104 [...]
Windows Media Codec List
Posted: 28th August 2009 by Roman in Audio, Utilities, Video, WTLTags: Audio, codec, utility, Video, windows media
Windows Media Codec List utility uses IWMCodecInfo interface (see also IWMCodecInfo2, IWMCodecInfo3) lists installed Windows Media Codecs and their formats and presents the findings in a convenient way. The utility gives a quick idea what a programmer would obtain through IWMCodecInfo2/IWMCodecInfo3 interfaces and what well known format structures (WM_MEDIA_TYPE, AM_MEDIA_TYPE, WAVEFORMATEX, VIDEOINFOHEADER) correspond to particular [...]
Crap Around the World – PICVideo MJPEG Decompressor
Posted: 13th November 2008 by Roman in Seriously, Technology, VideoTags: codec, crap, DirectShow, JPEG, pegasus, Video
Yesterday I received a complaint from a Most Important Customer about a weird problem on a few of their digital video recording servers. The problem was that a new version of software, client part, would out of a sudden auto-close without any notice. The problem was quite persistent and basically of not a difficult kind [...]