Problems with Lagarith

Warlocket · Post by **Warlocket** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:03 pm

Recently, I've been having problems with Lagarith. Whenever I try to export videos from my video editor, VDubMod, or try to convert them as Lagarith, the resulting file either has audio but no video, or the video ends up being only one second of black screen and no audio.

I have successfully been able to use this codec before and I haven't changed anything on my computer at all since the last time I've used it. I did try uninstalling and reinstalling the codec which did absolutely nothing. Any ideas?

Warlocket · Post by **Warlocket** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:43 pm

Okay...it seems that I CAN play the file normally, but only in Windows Media Player. For some reason, it won't play correctly in VLC even though it used to work just fine.

So the question now becomes: How do I get it to work in VLC again?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:36 pm

Spatula_Castle wrote:Okay...it seems that I CAN play the file normally, but only in Windows Media Player. For some reason, it won't play correctly in VLC even though it used to work just fine.

So the question now becomes: How do I get it to work in VLC again?

by getting a better media player :/
SMplayer (or any other mplayer variant) is a good choice, as is CCCP (which is actually a well constructed codec pack...includes media player classic)

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:50 pm

Lagarith is a video for windows codec. VLC uses its own internal codecs to play files, so that is why it won't play the lagarith file. Similarly, mplayer and cccp will do absolutely nothing in regards to it.

Warlocket · Post by **Warlocket** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:25 pm

Zarxrax wrote:Lagarith is a video for windows codec. VLC uses its own internal codecs to play files, so that is why it won't play the lagarith file. Similarly, mplayer and cccp will do absolutely nothing in regards to it.

That's weird...I used to be able to play Lagarith videos in VLC just fine.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:41 pm

Hmmm, well on a wiki I just looked at, it claimed that vlc DOES support lagarith now.

So, maybe either
1) you have an old version of vlc, or
2) vlc supported an old version of lagarith, and cant support the newest ones

Thats all I can think of.

Warlocket · Post by **Warlocket** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:26 pm

I just tried updating my VLC player and that didn't work so it probably does only work with an older version of Lagarith. Plus it would explain why it seemed to just stop working for no reason (I don't remember updating the codec...but I don't remember a lot of things >_>).

Thank you for the help, Zarx