OK, now I am *seriously* confused...

I encoded a bunch of AVIs using the Huffyuv codec. (I often do this.) 
However, a while later I just happened to play one back, and noticed 
something extremely strange: The colours are all screwed up, and the 

dimensions have been recorded wrong).

By this point I'd already deleted the uncompressed sources [which took 
several weeks to render], so I was rather alarmed. [Understatement.] 
However, on loading the thing up into VirtualDub, I discovered something 
truely bizzare: If you skip to any frame, it comes out correct. But if 
you *play* the video, it comes out screwed up. WTF?

Anyway, when I play Huffyuv videos, the ffdshow logo pops up in the 
system tray, so I assumed ffdshow was doing the decoding. So I 
uninstalled ffdshow, thinking it must be some kind of bug. However, my 
computer still understands Huffyuv. And then I noticed an entry that 
says "Huffyuv (Remove only)". So I uninstalled that. And yet my computer 
*still* knows how to decode Huffyuv, despite there being no codec for it 
installed...

At this point, I am massively confused. I can both encode and decode 
Huffyuv, but it doesn't playback right. Why the hell is the playback 
wrong, and why is it still encoding and decoding a codec I've uninstalled??

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