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Video Codecs

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  • 23-02-2004 2:11am
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    ogy
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭


    Hey whenever i download a video from kazaa i can never ever get a picture, just the sound. kazaa doesnt give a reason but media player says theres an error downloading the codec, what can i do to play the videos ive (painstakingly) downloaded?


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    joePC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭joePC


    it may be DIVX try downloading the divx player...

    divx.com

    Thanks joePC.......


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    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    ya in most cases it will be divx but sometimes its xvid just search on google its good to have both codec's installed, they arnt officaly supported by microsoft thats why media player cant download them


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,579 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    google a program called Gspot

    download it

    run it

    point it towards the video file

    whall la it tells you what codec you'll need

    google what ever codec it tells you that you need.

    install the codec

    watch your video.


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    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    ah never heard of that program before
    nice one might come in handy


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    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,508 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    download the kazza lite codec pack its very good and has all the codecs needed.


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    #7
    ogy
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭ogy


    hey thanks very much guys very helpful as always


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    #8
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    get Video Lan.

    It'll play any sort of video file no hassle at all.

    afaik, there's a prog for Windows Media Player to allow it to play everything aswell...not sure tbh


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    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    That is media player classic. It is freeware based on windows media player 6. It will player any video and audio aslong as the codec is installed. Basically instead of opening up windows media player for .wmv and divx for .avi and quicktime for .mov etc. media player classic will open up and play. Uses less system resources than WMP quicktime or divx-player. winamp does the same but media player classic loads quicker and has more features. google should find it easily it is a small program.


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    OfflerCrocGod
    Registered Users Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    Originally posted by D
    That is media player classic. It is freeware based on windows media player 6.
    NO NO NO it LOOKS like WMP6 it's not based on it - it's open source do you really think MS would open source any of their code?.


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    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    What i meant was media player 6 had the same feature of playing anything aslong as the codec was installed. That was why glenstad or whatever that person's name was created media player classic. It was inspired by windows media player 6 and was coded to duplicate it's features


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    po0k
    Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    One important difference.
    WMP, MPC, BSPlayer, Winamp5 etc. all use the DirectShow/ActiveX method for codecs.

    VideoLAN client has everything built-in as modules, doesn't rely on any external apps or codecs that aren't part of the installation package.


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    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    If you visit Doom9.org, you can download their codec pack, which should pretty much cover 95% of most codec requirements out there. This is what I did, and I've never had any problems viewing any type of media.


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    #14
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,995 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Mplayer for Windows is the business, very low CPU usage and comes with pretty much every popular codec you can think of built in.

    Download it from: http://www.christianroessler.net/mplayer/index.php

    When lending movies to friends, I use Movix (http://movix.sourceforge.net) which is based on Mplayer to make bootable movie cds :)


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