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Video Codecs

Posted: 2006-07-29 11:35am
by Ender
I'm looking for a download that has all, or almost all, the video codecs out there so I can watch any kind of video on my computer. I used to have such a thing, but in my recent cleansing of my files I apparently deleted a codec I had (videos I used to be able to watch I now only get sound or won't play) and when I search for the file I had downlaoded I can't find it.

Any help?

Posted: 2006-07-29 11:41am
by Ace Pace
VLCplayer from my knowledge has nearly every codec intergrated in the install.

Posted: 2006-07-29 11:45am
by Bounty
KL Codec pack perhaps?

Posted: 2006-07-29 11:48am
by Ender
Ace, I was looking for something that let me run things with WMP, insted of a new player for everything.
Bounty wrote:KL Codec pack perhaps?
Fuck, That's what I have, I thought that was Kazaa Lite so I wasn't running it. Thanks

Posted: 2006-07-29 11:50am
by Ace Pace
Oh, another fellow WMP10 user, my mistake. Yes, KL codec pack is good.

Posted: 2006-07-29 11:54am
by Bounty
Fuck, That's what I have, I thought that was Kazaa Lite so I wasn't running it. Thanks
I think it may have started off as a spin-off of Kazaa Lite in a dark and distant past but it's not related anymore as far as I know.

Posted: 2006-07-29 12:11pm
by General Zod
You might be interested in the Combined Community Codec Pack. You have to uninstall all your other codecs to use it, but once it's installed and configured (very minimal configuration) you can play just about any video file out there with its built in video players. In some cases it's better than VLC at handling unusual file types.

Posted: 2006-07-29 02:11pm
by Uraniun235
The Defiler Pak should give you just about everything you need.

Posted: 2006-07-29 04:18pm
by sketerpot
Ender wrote:Ace, I was looking for something that let me run things with WMP, insted of a new player for everything.
There are quite a few video formats which Windows Media Player doesn't support. VLC usually does support them, and it has a much cleaner interface with more important features and less crap.

WMP can do a lot if you get the right codec pack, but VLC can do more, better. If your momentum is that strong, stay with WMP, but otherwise VLC is just a much nicer choice.

Posted: 2006-07-29 04:33pm
by Uraniun235
I dunno about that. I've got some fansubs in MKV format where the DirectShow-based players render the subtitles beautifully, but VLC just shits the bed and makes them look awful. I'm also not a fan of the VLC interface... for some reason it won't let me map volume control to the mousewheel, and I hate... hate the fact that clicking on the progress bar does not jump to the very point that you clicked on, but rather just advances the video by some stupid arbitrary increment.

Posted: 2006-07-29 04:53pm
by DPDarkPrimus
I just get the KL Lite Codec pack and run Media Player Classic. You don't need anything else, baby.

Posted: 2006-07-29 05:18pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Media Player Classic and the CCCP Codec pack.

Posted: 2006-07-29 08:07pm
by Rin
Combined Community Codec Pack, Media Player Classic that is included in it, with Real Alternative and QuickTime Alternative plays everything I have.

Just do not install Alternative's MPC, as CCCP's MPC is already configured to work.

CCCP FAQ linky and if you really want to use it, CCCP is "partially compatible" with WiMP10

--Rin

Posted: 2006-07-29 08:26pm
by Pu-239
I just point most of my friends towards a windows port of Mplayer -there are a bunch of GUI frontends for it. Alas, it doesn't have a plugin for web browsers on Windows.

Posted: 2006-07-30 04:42am
by mizuno
Uraniun235 wrote:'m also not a fan of the VLC interface... for some reason it won't let me map volume control to the mousewheel, and I hate... hate the fact that clicking on the progress bar does not jump to the very point that you clicked on, but rather just advances the video by some stupid arbitrary increment.
These reasons plus vlc's broken softsub support are the reasons why I prefer CCCP which comes with media player classic and is the best out of all the combinations I've ever used. Plus it is pretty much idiot proof and will play virturally any video file you'll ever come across

Posted: 2006-07-30 05:28am
by Netko
Someone should make VLC the engine for MPC's video reproduction. It's superior in some ways (for example, it can directly open a file being downloaded by DC++, it neatly avoids codec conflicts, etc.), but the GUI is such an atrocity that I only use it when I really really truly have to.

Uranium, you can map it, but it only works fullscreen, without the GUI (yay for crappy GUI).