Cineform AVIs no longer play back with Windows Media Player.
 

Cineform AVIs no longer play back with Windows Media Player on my PC anymore. Is it just me or is this a problem for others as well? I'm using an HP Core2Duo laptop with 8GB of RAM and two 750 GB 7200 RPM hard drives.

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Try Media Player Classic... thats the one to use with Cineform...

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Still playing for me.

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I uninstalled Cineform Neo HD and reinstalled the latest version. The same, no playback in media player. I installed the 64 bit version of Windows Media Player Classic. That works, but the video is stretched vertically (1440 to 1920) and the playback is not smooth. I tried running the accelerated playback script from the Cineform tools, and it just opened in notepad instead of running.

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I just switched over from Neo HD to Neo. I still can't play Cineform files properly directly in Windows using media player, VLC, media player classic, etc. VLC doesn't work at all, WMP plays the audio with a static single upside down and weirdly scaled image in the viewer, and Windows Media Player Classic plays the image upside down and with the top and bottom separated like it was trying to decipher a 3D image (with a non-3d image). I can use the Cineform avi clips in Vegas fine, but I can't view them directly in Windows. I have tried any number of combinations using the Cineform settings menu in the tray, and none of them seem to help.

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This is not an issue with Neo, rather something wrong in your install. You will have to work through this with support.

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So nobody else is having this problem? Just me? Cool, I did an uninstall of Neo HD before I installed Neo and the problem persisted through the uninstall and reinstall. I'll mess around a little more then contact Cineform support if I can't figure it out. In the mean time, I would love to know if anyone else has this problem.

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OK, I've figured some of it out. There are currently both 32 and 64 bit versions of Media Player Classic. Since I have Windows 7 64 bit, I was using the 64 bit version of Media Player Classic. Viewing Cineform AVI clips with the 64 bit player doesn't work properly right now. Playback with the 32 bit version of Media Player Classic is better.

Another strange thing with Media Player Classic: Fast Desktop Playback gives 1/4 resolution and regular playback gives half resolution. Not a horrible problem, but it is a little frustrating.

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Irfanview player works OK with Cineform AVI

Topaz Moment (a media player with screen still capturing) will play back Cineform video but not the audio.

Quicktime will playback Cineform fine (but I hate Quicktime on Windows because it is so inefficient).

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Sorry to bump this, but I registered specifically because of this thread, and it takes forever to be confirmed as a human on this board.

I was wondering if you'd found anything else on this, as I'd recently (well, a few weeks ago) been hit with the same problem. Windows Media Player just randomly stopped playing anything but sound on AVI's that came from NeoScene. It didn't seem to coincide with any updates that happened anywhere either, as far as I can tell. And as I messed around with it, I found that none of the other players I have, media player classic, DivX player, etc. could play the video. And the program I use for compositing, FXHome Visionlab, crashes the second I try to import a Cineform encoded AVI. Even older projects that were previously working fine crash when I try to open them. IF they contain a Cineform AVI. Any projects with other types of media are fine. Sony Vegas seems to be the only thing that's still cool with the Cineform encoding.

I tried updating my K-lite codec pack (back before I was aware of the Visionlab crashing), updating DivX, Media Player, but nothing worked. I don't dare uninstall and reinstall NeoScene, because I can NEVER get that to go down cleanly. I couldn't find anything useful on the Cineform website, and this seems to be the only active forum that has a Cineform community.

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You have a support issue, this not a general problem, it seem you have messes up DirectShow decoding. Please file a trouble ticket. You can always safely uninstall and reinstall any CineForm tool as that doesn't change the activation. Do not deactivate (that is only for moving a license to a new PC.)