Video snap stopped working?? :(

[slipstream19]

Hi gyus.

I havent used gameex for a while, But tonight my new GF is coming by and i thought id start gameex up to se

everything is in order. (i had rearanged a bunch of folders from one harddrive to another resulting in disabeling

of some emulators to get gameex to launch

Whell i start up gameex and get an update. i update and get into the program.

I then go into my favourites folder and when my videosnaps is about to appear a box saying

"Do you wish to use ffDshow for gameex" i click "always"

no video is appearing and im only hearing the sound from the videosnap no picture

and on top of it, gameex freezes and i have to reboot the computer.

my guess is

1 i downloaded another codec or something?

2 The gamex update did it?

how do i get the videosnap not to crash my computer again?

plz help

[bkenobi]

If a window is popping up asking you to use a codec for something, then it's not a GameEx issue (the update didn't do it). Did you play with codecs at all on that machine? My guess is that you installed another codec somewhere along the line and it changed what codec is being used for certain file types. I don't know an easy way to fix that but I have two suggestions.

1) Reinstall the ffdshow codec off the link on GameEx.net.

2) If (1) doesn't work, uninstall all codecs and start fresh only installing the ones you need

There are ways to pick what codec you want to use for certain types of files, but I don't know where to access them. If Nologic or Brian don't chime in, one of these two methods should work.

[slipstream19]

But the videos (my avi files) work, but the snaps i passed by down to the vidoe i want to se start looping over and over.

eaven when i star a movie, the last thing i moved my cursor over, that snap (sound of that snap) is going in the background.

well ill try reinstalling FFDshow. (and set FFDshow to manage all kinds of media programs right)?

(because ffdshow is the codec gamex likes most to use right)?

ill try this tonight, wont have time to do this before my gf arrives :S

well thx anyway.. ill get back to yah

[bkenobi]

One other option you could try is to disable the video snaps or the non-video snaps (erase the path in the GameEx setup). If it's crashing because of one of them, eliminating them (for the time being) might help it play without crashing.