HDVSplit is working fine on my Q6600/XP x64 desktop and I can preview at full frame with no problems.

I have no idea which MPEG2 codec it is using. I ran the Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility and it reports installed MPEG-2 decoders to be MainConcept MPEG Video Decoder, Nero Video Decoder and Nero DVD Decoder:



Is there a way to find out which codec is being used by the HDVSplit preview?

However on my Dell Precision M6300/T7800 laptop HDVSplit was reporting no MPEG2 codec found so I ran the checkup utility and it shows the same codecs installed as my desktop plus the Cyberlink decoder that came with the bundled PowerDVD.

Why would preview work on the desktop but not on the laptop if it has the same codecs?

So I installed and set up ffdshow on the laptop exactly as Paviko recommends on his site. It does now show a preview but now HDVSplit crashes regularly no matter how small the preview window size.

Paviko says on sonyhdvinfo.com ...

HDVSplit need decoder that is able to work in "push mode", which means the decoder wait for data from camcorder and decoder is not reading it when it wants but when camcorder says "read new data" Not all MPEG2 decoders include this mode. I've tried MainConcept and ffdshow - they work..

This raises the question why the MainConcept decoder (that presumably came with Vegas) is not being used. A different version of the MainConcept decoder perhaps?

In the next reply "Penguin" reports that the $20 nVidia PureVideo Decoder works. I'm happy to spend that if I know it will do the trick, but first I want to work out why I'm getting preview on the desktop but not the laptop.

I really need to try and get it working because my potential customers watch my rushes as they are captured to disk and the camera's flip out screen is just too small for this. Before I got this fast laptop I was capturing from my Z1 in DV so a nice large Sclive preview worked well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.