Vdub and Divx5.1

FROM THE VDUB SITE 9/25/2003 News: DivX 5.1, 3ivx, and plugins My announcement for the week is that I will not be supporting the use of DivX 5.1 in any way, shape or form in VirtualDub. That doesn't mean you can't use it or that VirtualDub will prevent you from using it, but merely that I won't bother answering questions about issues with the use of the codec, and any email about the use of DivX 5.1 with VirtualDub will be dumped into the trash. The reason is the following: I have never been a big fan of so-called "protection" wrappers, primarily due to technical reasons. However, putting one into a userspace driver is one of the dumbest and rudest ideas I can think of. Here are the problems: I can't debug VirtualDub using the DivX 5.1 codec. Remember that B-frame glitch that was causing VirtualDub 1.5.3 to loop infinitely at the end of processing operations? Can't use the debugger if the DivX 5.1 Pro codec prevents it. I can't debug VirtualDub AT ALL while the codec is installed, because the DivX codec's "protection" triggers on load, even in the Free driver. Both the video codec search and video compression dialogs trigger it even if I'm not trying to use the DivX codec. I can't debug my other programs either, because if I hover over an AVI file in an Open Dialog, Explorer loads video codecs to try to display a tooltip about it, and the DivX codec terminates my program. The "protection" dialog has no indication that it comes from the DivX codec, has the client application's icon on the taskbar, and when you click OK, the codec calls ExitProcess(0) and terminates the app. I can live with games and applications that won't let you launch them under a debugger, but when it comes to a driver that keeps me from using Visual Studio in general, the driver gets uninstalled. Immediately. It is a waste of time for me to verify any compatibility issues with DivX 5.1 if I have to deal with this crap and I refuse to do so. It looks like DivXNetworks is considering adjusting or removing the "protection" in their next release; please encourage them to do so and resume working on the codec itself, which is what people actually care about. Since then i havent read anything that says divx 5.1 is ok with vdub or any support has been added, maybe i missed it, but can any one help me out, i'm still using divx 5.0.5 because of this one bit of old news :(

Read the first paragraph again carefully. What Avery Lee is saying is that the new "protection" code introduced in DivX 5.1 Pro prevents him from debugging his program. So if it hangs or crashes on a system with DivX installed, he can't fix it. That's all it means. FWIW, I've been using DivX 5.1.1 Pro and VirtualDub for a long time with no problems.

Thanks a bunch, just being careful...:rolleyes: