# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1238017413 0 # Node ID 22d4bb6bf62996118d1eff305eaabf16f9d2bea4 # Parent 0b54bdf2370cf993e19562dc830b2d2a0476dd85 typo fixes diff -r 0b54bdf2370c -r 22d4bb6bf629 DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt --- a/DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt Wed Mar 25 21:37:57 2009 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt Wed Mar 25 21:43:33 2009 +0000 @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ -VFW codecs +VfW codecs ~~~~~~~~~~ -VFW (Video for Windows) is the old video API for Windows. Its codecs have +VfW (Video for Windows) is the old video API for Windows. Its codecs have the '.dll' or (rarely) '.drv' extension. If MPlayer fails at playing your AVI with this kind of message: @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU = HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc.). Now that you know this, you have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. -You can find the vfw codec by searching the internet for e.g. VIDC.HFYU. +You can find the VfW codec by searching the internet for e.g. VIDC.HFYU. In our case, the 'system.ini' also contains this information in a line that reads: @@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ Tips: ~~~~~~~ If you get an error loading a new codec, it may need some more files to work. -Start the filemon utility before loading MPlayer to find out which dlls are +Start the filemon utility before loading MPlayer to find out which DLLs are trying to be loaded. -Your codec may load some external .dll libraries. If the codec is already +Your codec may load some external DLL libraries. If the codec is already installed in Windows, run listdlls wmplayer.exe while Windows Media Player is playing your file to find out which.