audio codec

chez42

Everytime i try to watch a movie using windows media player i can see it but not hear it and it says it needs an audio codes but when i select web help nothing happens so i googled it and found free-codecs.com but i am afraid of using it because it is an unkown publisher and all of my pc security system tries to stop me.Has anyone ever used free-codecs.com and if so what are your thoughts on it.Thanks

elgicko

Hi,

VLC Player will play anything - you wont be disappointed

Its free here is the link : http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/

Elgicko

marco_polo

It is fine. Download the k-lite codec pack from there. It has an extensive collection of audio codecs bundled there. Often smaller legit software producers will not sign their programs digitally, but if in any doubt is is never any harm to check on anybody who does not to be on the safe side.

VLC is great too though - does it come with all the codecs on windows, I seem to remember having to get them seperately on Ubuntu? (** Nevermind I remember now it was just codecs for enabling DVD playback in Ubuntu**)

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

Deliverance

chez42 wrote: »

Everytime i try to watch a movie using windows media player i can see it but not hear it and it says it needs an audio codes but when i select web help nothing happens so i googled it and found free-codecs.com but i am afraid of using it because it is an unkown publisher and all of my pc security system tries to stop me.Has anyone ever used free-codecs.com and if so what are your thoughts on it.Thanks

Seen this a hundred times before: you need this codec. http://ac3filter.net/

EKRIUQ

Microsofts own codecs work well too.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06fcaab7-dcc9-466b-b0c4-04db144bb601&displaylang=en

54kroc

Combined Community Codec Pack is a good one too