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FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:02 pm

We are happy to introduce BETA version of our FIC DirectShow decoder.
Now with FIC DirectShow filter you can playback, edit and convert all Action! recordings in any software supporting DirectShow decoders. It also supports thumbnails in Windows Explorer.

Installation instructions:
1) Download ZIP from:
2) Unpack ZIP
3) Right click on "register_fic_codec.bat" and select "Run as Administrator"

Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
If you have any questions or problems please report it in this topic or directly at: support@mirillis.com.
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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:56 am

Hi,

After running BAT file as admin I was able to play FIC file in MPC (Media Player Classic). But I couldn't open the file in any of the following programs:

Sony Vegas Pro 10
VideoReDo TVSuite V4/w H.264
XviD4PSP 5
XviD4PSP 6
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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:49 am

Hooray!

MozartMan,
Vegas doesn't support DirectShow decoders - only vfw (video for windows). On the same reason you can't use such decoder directly in VirtualDub. However it's possible to use Avisynth for video decoding and frameserving to any application that support uncompressed avi files (or have native avisynth support, like vdub).

Xvid4PSP 5 - you have to use DirectShowSource (or DirectShowSource2), not avisource (it's for vfw) or ffvideosource. On video -> decoding tab add fic, and choose DirectShowSource for it
After that it should be working fine (as it works for me :))

Xvid4PSP 6... It's not "next and better version of Xvid4PSP 5", it's absolutely different program. It's much more casual, so I'm not sure if it's possible to choose same option here.

tsMuxer :D
Supported output formats:
- TS
- M2TS
- Blu-ray

Supported video codecs:
- H.264
- VC-1
- MPEG2
P.s. building DS graph takes quite a while... With monogram graphstudio ~6 s (versus <1s on AVC video), and with avisynth it takes much more (20 s) time...
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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:33 am

Thank you guys for your feedback.
Vivan: thank you for explaining MozartMan the issues about all mentioned software.

Indeed Sony Vegas does not support DS decoders, but in example Adobe Premiere does it well.
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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:01 am

Thanks Vivan!

I was able to load FIC file into Xvid4PSP 5 and convert it to M2TS. Caching takes a long time. Also, video loads upside down.
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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:34 pm

Hmm, I still seem unable to open .fic files directly in Adobe Premiere CS5.5 (I must be doing something wrong, but I have no idea). I can confirm that Windows Media Player can now open and play .fic files though.

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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:14 pm

Can someone tell me with what program can i open the action! recorder?

-Someone try with camtasia studio 7?

What i want to do with the video is edit it (like cut some parts of the video)
With this new decoder DirectShow is there any program abble to do what i want that supports the action! recorder?

Thanks

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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:41 am

Question to Mirillis team.

Do you guys have any idea why my FIC files load upside down in XviD4PSP 5?

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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:25 am

Avisynth doc says:
Some decoders (notably MS MPEG-4) will produce upside-down video. You'll have to use FlipVertical.
So add FlipVertical() to your filtration script (button near filtration will open that window)
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Re: FIC Decoder DirectShow - BETA!

Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:07 pm

vivan wrote:So add FlipVertical() to your filtration script (button near filtration will open that window)
Thanks Vivan!

Somehow FlipVertical() filter was not available from the drop down list, so I typed it manually like your image showed. It worked. Re-encoded to M2TS file with x.264. Looks great!
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