OT: How do I find installed codecs?

Rich Parry wrote on 4/3/2014, 6:52 AM

I'm having some issues that make me think the "CFHD" (Cineform HD) codec is not installed, which is surprising since I have Cineform Neoscene and GoPro Studio installed.

I have VP12, MediaInfo, AVIDemux, VLC, AE, and PP. Will one of these tell me if CFHD codec is installed?

Years ago I used GSpot, I'd rather not install it if one of the above tells me what I want.

Thanks,
Rich

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diverG wrote on 4/3/2014, 6:57 AM

Windows Media Player->Help->Technical Support Information

Maybe that will assist?

videoITguy wrote on 4/3/2014, 10:16 AM

with a lot more info that you did not even think you would want to know..
Read.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=888345

NormanPCN wrote on 4/3/2014, 10:48 AM

Gspot is a portable "install", and only 400KB. Portable meaning you do not actually install it. You unzip it to some folder and there are only 4 files in the ZIP.
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/index.htm

Otherwise the Windows media player can give you some info, as someone else stated. Windows media player does not necessarily use the same codec interface as Vegas.

You have both Neoscene and GoPro studio installed. Maybe that is causing a problem. Both are trying to provide the same thing.

Vegas supposedly uses the Cineform SDK, since v10, to directly access the Cineform codec. That mechanism will be different that anything Gspot or other will list to you.

I have GoPro studio, Vegas 12 and Windows 7 and Cineform encodes do work. With an early version of GoPro studio decodes worked but not encodes and since version 2 of GoPro studio encodes have worked in Vegas.

Rich Parry wrote on 4/3/2014, 10:42 PM

I have installed GSpot and confirmed CFHD codec is installed. so I'll have to continue troubleshooting to find out why my GoPro Studio isn't able to import and display video in the Install Bin window. It works correctly on my laptop, but not my desktop.

Thanks to all that replied.
Rich

PeterDuke wrote on 4/4/2014, 5:53 PM

Cineform is an AVI file type which you will find in the Video for Windows group. Are you sure that you are looking in the right spot within Vegas?

Render As
Save As type: Video for Windows (*.avi)
Custom
Video format: Cineform

videoITguy wrote on 4/4/2014, 5:57 PM

As I recall Neoscene installer codec was last upgraded with a companion free cineform decoder which itself has hooks to Windows Media Player - this was meant to be the grandfathering clause of getting archived older Cineform files to play even on a non-licensed platform. I think this was intended to avoid the conflict you are seeing with newer Studio Pro.