FREEBOX - MISSING CODEC YV12

[Galarth]

Hello,

I live in France, and I have a "freebox" router from Free internet provider. I used to watch the tv channels throught a tv capture card and Vlc on windows xp sp3. I followed instructions found on a forum hosted on http://www.hifocus.net, a site who no longer exists, but I saved the step-by-step instructions, and I can upload them here as soon as I discover how to upload attachments on this forum. Everything worked fine, until I updated Vlc to version 0.9.4 Grishenko. After that Vlc could still capture the video stream, but rendered it very badly. I tried to find the problem, and I noticed that I used to select VY12 as stream format "color space/compression" codec, but now I only can choice between I420, YVU9, YUY2, RGB 24 and RGB 555 (16 bit).
Do you think this is the problem? If yes, do you know how to install the necessary codec?

Thank you

[VLC_help]

as soon as I discover how to upload attachments on this forum

You cannot upload stuff here.

Do you think this is the problem? Do you know how to install the necessary codec?

Wrong colorspace can cause image problems. But you cannot install any codecs to VLC, everything is build-in. Did you try all other colorspace formats?

[Galarth]

Did you try all other colorspace formats?

Yes, I tried all five, but it's pretty funny an update (0.9.4) is less performant than a previous release (=doesn't support YV12).
Do you know how to solve this?

[Galarth]

I have another question: does anybody knows wich (old) Vlc version provided the YV12 codec?

[VLC_help]

You can try it also from command line, using --dshow-chroma=YV12 or :dshow-chroma=YV12. Some options might be gone from GUI, but not from VLC's core.

0.8.6 is the last version that uses wxwidget GUI.

[Galarth]

You can try it also from command line, using --dshow-chroma=YV12 or :dshow-chroma=YV12.

Sorry, but how can I access to the "command line" in order to tape what you said?

0.8.6 is the last version that uses wxwidget GUI.

What is "wxwidget GUI"?

[VLC_help]

start -> run -> cmd
that is command-line

wxwidget is the graphical user interface (GUI) used in 0.8.6

0.9.0 and newer use QT4 GUI. So when you said OLD VLC, I assumed you meant one that has wxwidget GUI.

[Galarth]

Hi, I tried to use to type "--dshow-chroma=YV12" in the command line on the start menu, and it says the YV12 codec is just missing; I tried to type that on the "Media Ressource Locator" line on "Open Capture Device" submenu and it doesn't help neither. No matter wich gui I use, I don't find the YV12 codec.
I also tried to downgrade vlc to 0.8.6 and 0.8.1, but I still don't find that option on the "Color - Space compression" choices, as I did before upgrade to 0.9.4... I wonder what happened. Before you even say, I know how to uninstall a program before install another version.
Any idea on how to have back this damn YV12 codec?

[VLC_help]

Everything VLC uses is build-in to VLC. So if you had it earlier, it should still be there.