Cannot find appropiate codec for enconding the video frame

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Cannot find appropiate codec for enconding the video frame

PostMon May 19, 2025 6:25 pm

Hi!

After update Resolve Studio 20 from beta 2 to beta 3 sofware stopped rendernig mp4 (H264) videos.

It displays the message: "Cannot find appropiate codec for enconding the video frame" and .... nothing.

Luckily I have a codec pack from MainConcept and if I select their codecs I am able to render MP4 but the problem remains.

I have read some older threads about this error and did a clean (using Display Driver Uninstaller utility) install of the latest NVIDIA drivers. To no avail.

In beta 2 everything worked fine.

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Re: Cannot find appropiate codec for enconding the video fra

PostTue May 20, 2025 1:39 am

Pecusx wrote:Luckily I have a codec pack from MainConcept
I thin that's actually the cause of the error message.

Try getting rid of MainConcept.
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Re: Cannot find appropiate codec for enconding the video fra

PostTue May 20, 2025 9:23 pm

Are you sure that this is the case?

All previous versions of Resolve (including v.20 beta 2) did not have this problem, and I have been using MainConcept codecs for a long time.

I updated Resolve to beta 4 - no change - mp4 cannot be rendered.
Resolve 20 (beta 3) with Speed Editor and Tangent Element-Tk
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Re: Cannot find appropiate codec for enconding the video fra

PostTue May 20, 2025 9:51 pm

Search the forums. I do believe others are reporting the same issue. Getting rid of MainConcept was the fix.
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