Error: Failed to initialize mediacore

Question

Hi people, im having trouble at startup, im using AE CS3 and when crashes it throws me "failed to initialize mediacore".
Then the program runs but it kinda throw some artifacts in the project im working, like little black bars ruining everything, those also appear on the exported render.
I tried updating codecs and downloading the latest quicktime but nothing works.
CS3 is the only alternative because my partners are sending me AE CS3 projects.
Im working on windows xp proffesional sp3, mi proccesor is an Intel Core2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2GHz, mi ram is 3GB, an my video card is an integrated onboard Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family.
Google doesnt help to much, only a few results came up.
Well thats it, anyone have any idea? dont be shy, everything help.

Answer 1

Apples and oranges. Even for AE7 Adobe never supported OpenGL officially, but since it used an older version of OpenGL, your chip set may just be sufficiently powered to deliver all the features. And AE7 did not have MediaCore... Anyway, could you just try to reduce the hardware acceleration level in your system generic display settings? Or perhaps there is some compatibility settings you can tweak? Down to the point: You problem is, that MC still thinks hardware acceleration is available and does not revert to software-only mode, which requires you to somehow convince it to do so by adjusting things outside of AE. If you are adventurous enough, maybe you can also download the CS4 trial and see if it behaves any better... As a last resort, you could also attempt to remove all MediaCore plugins from your Support Files folder (move it to a different location so you can restore it at any time, don't delete it!). This should, in theory suppress all functions handled by it (you will also loose the ability to deal with some of them entirely), but may prevent at least the rendering errors. you will still get the warning message, though...
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