The Official 'I need a codec' Thread

MasterT · newbie! Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 38

Don't know if this has been posted, but this plays pretty much anything...

http://www.videolan.org/

Plays avi, ogg, mkv, etc. Plus, for ogg/mkvs, it lets you switch the audio and subtitles within the VLC player.

Sailor_Enlil · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:53 am Post subject:

cloud79 · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:49 am Post subject: If VLC can play it, what can?

First, Sailor_Enlil, have u tried some codecs packs. U had probs with ogg files, VLC should be able to play it cause i have animes that are in ogg, mkv... files that are unsual and VLC plays them all.

Ok, now my turn: I dl some Detective Conan [1-10] from (Aconan) and can't play them, even with VLC or Media Classic. The file extention says .AVI . But when i check it with G-spot, it says '' not a avi file and file unknow''.... ''Rendering failed''... some one help !!!

thks in advance Surprised

Jsy3k

cloud79 · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject: Thanks

Jsy3k thanks,

Pisted off man, it never happend before: corrupted files !!! How do i prevent this from happening again, don't feel like dl it and the same problem occurs.

thks

nitd_kim · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject:

is there any media player that has any codec? caz its realy lame changing programs and downloading new codecs all the time..

Raiden · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

umm....I kinda need some audio codecs. the only thing i was able to find(or works) was FLAC.

I still need codecs like APE, CUE and WV. I don't want those downloads to be a waste.... Exclamation

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CGY · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 1:54 pm Post subject:

Destiny81 · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:35 am Post subject:

is there any newer version of codec out there? the latest so far is 3.11 but still i can't open certain avi file! pls help me with this someone? Confused

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CGY · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:

Kaiser · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

Calador · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: May 23, 2004 Posts: 573

i have come across 2 of the most recommended codecs there is uptodate (maybe i am a little outdated so please excuse me).

They are :

K-Lite codec pack and Ace mega codec.

What are your comments on them and maybe you could let me know if there are better ones out there.
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CGY · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject:

Some of the codec downloading sites:

http://www.divx.com/divx/download/

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Codec_Pack_All_in_1.htm

http://www.xvid.org/

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html

http://www.cole2k.net/

Destiny81 · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:56 am Post subject:

may i know what is the role of fourcc codechanger? what is the use? i recently can't watch certain anime with xvid codec so i changed it to divx codec with fourcc codechanger, would it affect the avi file perfomance/quality? Confused

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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Taken from www.afterdawn.com: FourCC, a four character code in beginning of media file, mostly associated with AVI, that tells what codec your system should use for decoding the file.

From what you stated, I'm not sure what you did; whether to enable some features in your media player or re-encoded the video to divx. But there is no way you could watch a video encoded in xvid and decoded with divx. However, you can watch divx with xvid codec, since xvid is open-source and can decode both. Re-encoding a video lowers its quality and maybe performance.