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mpeg 2 codec

Tech3 · 2008-12-17 02:16:13

a friend of mine is after formatting her laptop, vista os, but when trying to play dvds on it it say codec needs to be downloaded. I hit web help and you need to pay money to get the mpeg codec back. Any ideas where i can get or recover this mpeg 2 codec?

17-12-2008 2:16am

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Tech3

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a friend of mine is after formatting her laptop, vista os, but when trying to play dvds on it it say codec needs to be downloaded. I hit web help and you need to pay money to get the mpeg codec back. Any ideas where i can get or recover this mpeg 2 codec?

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#2 17-12-2008 9:57am

PaddyTheNth

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Google CCCP or K-Lite

They're both free codec packs and they'll both play just about any audio/video you come across.

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#3 17-12-2008 4:12pm

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Use VLC, it plays DVD's just fine.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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