Best video codecs for WMP 10?

**bosstone74** · 01-07-2005, 09:34 PM

In my own little world, you could just click on any media file and it would play...is there a codec pack or something that I can install that will help me in this fight...
Please Frodo you're my only hope!! (in a Princes Leah kind of voice)

**Quattro** · 01-07-2005, 09:46 PM

Codec Pack - All In 1 is a pretty good pack. I use it currently, as of yet I haven't found a format it doesn't play.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...k_All_in_1.htm

**RoyN** · 01-08-2005, 03:26 PM

I use the K-Lite codec pack, I found it a bit better than All-in-1 pack... it is also available on www.free-codecs.com I havent come accross any files that dont play with it...

But I guess I'm not going to chare the info with you sine you only want frodo to answer.....

**n8scstm** · 01-08-2005, 03:29 PM

Nimo codec pack? Give it a try.

**EBFoxbat** · 01-08-2005, 03:53 PM

K-Lite Mega pack: here

**TheKingPlaza** · 01-08-2005, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by n8scstm

Nimo codec pack? Give it a try.

Don't use this.. that made a mess with my codecs..
I found, a long time ago, a codec pack which include:

* QuickTime Codecs [version 6.5.1.17]
* RealMedia Codecs [version 6.0.12.1053] (incl. Browser Plugins)
* DivX Pro 5.2.1 [Decoder]
* XviD 1.0.2 [Encoder/Decoder]
* Windows Media 8 [version 8.0.0.371]
* Windows Media 9 VCM [version 9.0.1.369] [Encoder]
* Windows Media 10 [version 10.0.0.3646]
* Cyberlink DVD Decoder [version 5.0.0.1130]
* Elecard MPEG-2 Decoder [version 2.0.0.3611]
* Elecard MPEG 2 Demultiplexer [version 3.1.165.40630]
* Ligos Indeo XP [version 5.2820.15.58]
* Intel Indeo [version 4.51.16.2]
* Intel Indeo [version 3.24.15.03]
* Intel I.263 [version 2.55.1.16]
* MS MPEG-4 [version 4.1.0.3927] [Encoder]
* On2 VP6 6.2.6.0 [Encoder/Decoder]
* Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 DirectShow Decoder [version 1.9.0.311]
* Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Encoder [version 3.3.0.44]
* WMA DirectShow Decoder [version 8.0.0.4487]
* AC3 Filter 1.01a RC5
* Ogg Vorbis [version 1.1.0]
* GSpot 2.52 beta 1 build 2004-09-15

I install all the files (25MB) in my system32 and use a .cmd to register the components..
PM me if you want it..

**bosstone74** · 01-08-2005, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by RoyN

I use the K-Lite codec pack, I found it a bit better than All-in-1 pack... it is also available on www.free-codecs.com I havent come accross any files that dont play with it...

But I guess I'm not going to chare the info with you sine you only want frodo to answer.....

It's not thatI didn't want your help...it's just kind of funny when ever I ask for help FRODO is usually the first one to reply within about 10 min of my post...Somehow I feel like he is my computer gardian angel. I'm just taking inventory from everyone to see if I can get a consensus.

I DO appreciate your help!!

**frodobaggins** · 01-09-2005, 12:24 AM

You won't like my answer on this one.
Codec packs are the devil.

**Maximus** · 01-09-2005, 02:18 PM

99 times out of 100, then yes...

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But the funny thing is, when I was fiddeling around with a unattended XP install I couldn't get all the codecs/filters I wanted to install silently (well, not in a estetic way anyway) so I made my own codecpack based upon one guys guide (and he knows what he's talking about) and a few other things I wanted in it (dvd-codec and Media Player Classic)...

Now, if I'd tell people that I installed this and that, configured it in a certain way, then fine... separate codecs are cool and if you know how to configure them then you're da man.

But if I'w tell 'em that I installed a codec pack, well, they really don't listen to what it contains or what it does because codec packs are evil, end of discussion.

In general codec packs are a good idea, the problem with Nemo, K-Lite and others are that they keep growing and growing to meet everyones needs so you'll end up with loads of different codecs, many of wich you'll never use.
Then you have (pardon me for saying this) the less experianced users who install nemo, then have a file that wont play, so they install K-Lite as well, and there the problems begin and all codec packs get a bad reputation.

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/M