Hey mick, when i go to check the correct points of freefall time, or when it askes me, i cant see any video in the preview window, just a black screen. everything else works just cant see no video. Do i need to install the codeavc 2.0 to get the preview? thx

You will need the correct codec installed to view the video. Core AVC decodes AVCHD video, which is the format that comes off the new HD cameras like the CX100. For $10 USD, it works well and gives crystal clear deinterlaced video like on the front page of the website.

You can check your codecs using the freeware utility GSpot .

I can't give a definite answer because it depends on the source media. A black video indicates the audio is decoding but the video isn't. If both audio and video fail, you will receive an error message suggesting installation of a codec.

There are freeware codecs available such as ffdshow tryouts but I had issues with that one incorrectly reporting the freefall times by exactly two seconds as if an offset was predefined.

We took this topic offline. It was certainly codec related and the eventual solution was to restore the Notebook back to factory default settings.

CoreAVC  decodes AVCHD or HD video and is highly recommended but is not free. It does not decode SD or MPG files, which is what we were trying to load into 270 Flash Vids.

FFDSHOW  is a freeware codec pack that does work with both AVCHD and MPG files. I've tested FFDSHOW on a vanilla copy of Windows 7 and it worked fine with 270 Flash Vids. However it didn't resolve the situation on this particular Notebook.

You also need a splitter to split the video and audio from the source media. CoreAVC includes the Haali  splitter but you can download this separately if you want to use FFDSHOW instead of CoreAVC.

270 Flash Vids does not install or modify any codecs. It asks Windows to play the videos so if videos do not play, the problem is a Windows codec issue and rectifying codec issues are well beyond the scope of this forum but GSpot  goes a long way towards identifying problems and resolving codec issues.

The attachments show the CoreAVC AVCHD codec in use by 270 Flash Vids. The clarity is better than FFDSHOW. The GSpot attachment shows how to use GSpot to ensure the DirectShow filters are working correctly.

Part of our troubleshooting with this issue involved using GSpot to lower the merits of codecs, which were not decoding correctly. This wasn't working for skydreamin and I forgot to mention something really important.

For anyone else in this boat, you need to right click GSpot and select run as administrator.

On Windows 7 or Vista, GSpot needs administrator rights to adjust codec priorities and to register/unregister codecs.

I experienced this on another computer recently with some codecs that were listed by GSpot as having files missing. FFDShow tryout was not being used and the codecs with missing files that were being used were not working. I couldn't unregister them due to the missing files. Lowering the merit to zero for all the codecs displayed in red, resolved the issue.