How can you view video files encoded in x264 on Bsplayer?

[merkavam4]

Hi everyone

I'm trying to view video files encoded in x264 on Bsplayer, but always get this error message:" unknown file format(x264)". anybody has any idea how to solve this problem?

TIA

[J7N]

Basically you need an H.264 video decoder. ffdshow is a good choice.

May I ask what is the file extension? Because in video world you also need a kind of decoder for the container video is in. There have been occurences of raw H.264 with *.264 extension. I don't know what decoder can eat this format.

[merkavam4]

The file extension is avi.

How about k-lite codec pack? better or worse than ffdshow?

If Bsplayer cannot play x264 format, is there a programm that can convert x264 to xvid?

[adicoto]

x264 it's not designed to be used in AVI format.
FFDshow can decode such things.
I am not sure if CoreAVC can decode it so I suggest to look around for the VFW version of x264

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=89979

[J7N]

Get ffdshow. The only reason for anybody to purchase or pirate CoreAVC, is if their computer isn't fast enough for the specific kind of video.

Since when do there is a x264 decoder?

[makkabe]

For mkv files, i have Combined-Community-Codec-Pack-2008-01-24 and reamediasplitter...

All the files in x264 are working well !

[adicoto]

@J7N

This is the encoding option in VfW and also you can see that the decoder used to render the file is x264 VfW

[J7N]

The Combined Community Codec Pack is built around ffdshow.

Indeed there is a decoder. :shock: I have some older VFW Matroskas and they played fine using CoreAVC.

[adicoto]

Seems that CoreAVC it's prefered to decode also VfW in AVI, the above mentioned file.