Toldja we need a video forum

Wanted to change my editing workflow as Sony Vegas 9.0c doesn't like files greater than 2Gb. Uninstalled it, cleared the Sony crap out of registry and installed 9.0e which is a big improvement. Except ...

... now I have no access to the codecs installed on my system. I can't render to .avi xvid and VirtualDub has the same problem. It's like the codecs have dissapeared and yet, the files can be played in WMP.

Don't try to tell me that Vegas can't read or render Xvid, cos I was doing it with version c ...!

How can I tell windows that the codecs are there and use them please?

You have lost the registry entries for the codecs, Try a "system restore to an earlier date". That may bring back the registry references to the codecs
If that does not work,re-install your codecs. When you uninstalled the Sony product it may have removed the registry information on the codecs.
Good luck, messing about with the registry can cause major problems. Always backup your registry before you play with it.
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Tried a restore; Windows told me my AV wasn't letting me restore it so I uninstalled the AV software - and got the same response I DID get xvid encoding back in VDub, but still don't have use of it in Vegas.

Should have backed it up eh ... sigh. Time for a reinstall with a legit copy anyway

What AV program are you running that you could not restore to an earlier date? You tried to system restore from the safe mode entry option? If you do that, it should do the system restore before the AV starts up.
regedit is one one of my favorite computer games, definitely not for the timid. When you really lose, your OS is hooped, so always back up before you make any changes.
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Acutally BitDefender let me do a registry restore from within itself. Didn't help cos it seems there is just no Xvid .ax or .dll in my /System32 folder ...
I kind of got it working - I can export from Vegas via FFDShow as xvid ... oh well :D

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Originally posted by Kamikuza it seems there is just no Xvid .ax or .dll in my /System32 folder ... :D

I guess that is why it was like the codecs had disappeared. It appears the Sony un-install removed the codecs. Were they part of the Sony package?
Glad you were able to kludge a solution. It is what makes windows such a great OS there a million ways to get something done.

Half a solution - if I could get the xvid .dll out of an install package, it'd probably be sorted.
I still think it was my messing around in the registry ... oh well lesson learned.

xvid is published under the GNU general public license. You should be able to find an install package for for free at xvid.org.
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The installer craps out and doesn't finish properly ... I found some 32-bit .dll's but didn't get time to regsrv32 them last night ... will try today ...

FFDshow version of Xvid has too many options!