I need codecs

Royale with Cheese

Have a large video file library, some of the files will not play.

Is there anywhere I can get a large amount of codecs? If they won't play with the latest divx codecs am I wasting my time? All the programmes I've used to play them tell me it's an unrecognised format. The files are .avi's.

feylya

Sounds like VLC www.videolan.org might be useful...

5uspect

ah VLC, what a program.

Royale with Cheese

Ok tried vlc. No joy

feylya

If they won't play with VLC, I'd imagine they're corrupted. VLC plays everything.

See if you can open them with VirtualDub

Ruu_Old

Gspot will identify what codec you need to play the file.

Royale with Cheese

Yeah looks like there's no hope for these files. Gspot can't do anything with them.

5uspect

gotta kiss your pr0n collection goodbye so!

I have seen vlc stumble with some avi files, but rarely.
Sometimes when this happens I get lucky with media player or even winamp.
Vdub is definitely a good suggestion (you'll get it from sourceforge.net). If they work in it you can re encode them into a working file for your standard player.

EDIT: I can't spell

Royale with Cheese

Nooooo my beloved porn :eek:

Actually they're episodes of Deadwood and the Sopranos. Some of them work, some don't. Some half work.

the1andonly1

google klite codec pack!! it comes with media player classic which I prefer over vlc. never had a video file that I couldnt play with it (the codec pack that is - once installed the videos should play in any player)


EDIT: there's 2 of us that cant spell 5uspect!

5uspect

the1andonly1 wrote:

EDIT: there's 2 of us that cant spell 5uspect!

I should really have thought of a better name...

zilog_jones

Try ffdshow as well - the "ffdshow tryouts" on SourceForge are the latest releases.

Little-Devil

Divx not available for Vista yet and VLC does not seem to be either.

Anybody know of any other or do i just have to wait?

Redisle

Op.This happened me before too, I have a pretty big avi collection and some of the files (always the ones that the preview pic never loaded for) just stopped working at some stage,they were somehow corrupted,

They ususally played partly in this program
http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
but its like the index file or something for the file was screwed up so It only managed to play some of it, but gom player can play some damaged files so give it a try anyway,

ab

Static M.e.

I actually ran into this trouble very recently, had some Avi's that wouldn't plan in my lovely VLC. Ended up downloading DIVx player and just installing the codecs then then the Avi's played in Media player.

Orion

Little-Devil wrote:

Divx not available for Vista yet and VLC does not seem to be either.

Anybody know of any other or do i just have to wait?

Divx works fine on Vista so does xvid. I watch shows on my vista lappy no problem. Seems VLC doesn't work well tho so I have to use Media Player.

kaisersose77

for vlc in vista you have to change some setting from directx to opengl as far as I can remember. If you dont, you just get sound.

8T8

CCCP is pretty much all you need.

Includes all in one package;
ffdshow
Haali media Splitter
VS vilter for subtitles
MPC or Zoom player I tend to set MPC as the media player

Orion

kaisersose77 wrote:

for vlc in vista you have to change some setting from directx to opengl as far as I can remember. If you dont, you just get sound.

Excellent. That's exactly what I was getting. Fixed now - thanks a mill.