Codecs

[nevpugh308]

Sometimes I will get an MPEG or AVI file which will work on my WinXP machine, but not my Win2k machine (or vice versa). When I try and open it in Media Player, it will try and "connect to web site" and download a Codec to suit, but it will never ever work.

How do you tell what Codec was used to create a movie file, and where do you download them from manually ?

(p.s. I've got all the common stuff like DivX btw)

Cheers

[GregE240]

Nev, do a Google search on "DivX Troubleshooter" - that should help you out.

Someone mailed me with this Q earlier this week and I haven't heard back from them. Assume it fixed their problem, or FOO-BAR'd their PC...

Drop me a line if you still have problems.

GT

[rjo]

If you do a search for this problem you will find a few answers, but to save you the trouble.
Here is a very good site for help www.dvdrhelp.com/
Thank you Mr carzee.
It's a site you can lost in but what you will be looking for is a program that will identify the codecs you need. There are a couple of them like GSpot but the one you want is AVI Codec and this link will take you to their download page. Scroll down until you find it. www.dvdrhelp.com/tools#other

[rpguk]

It sounds like the reason it never downloads the codec is because you have a firewall blocking access to the internet for the media player, try allowing that first, its a lot easier then tracking down codecs manually.

[FourWheelDrift]

There are various codecs both audio and video that are often needed to run Windows videos (depends on the compression used by the creator).

Often it will be a DivX or Xvid problem for video or AC3 for sound.

It is best to have installed the latest DivX codecs and the Xvid codecs from here (below link) plus others you may or may not need. Get hold of a copy of Gspot it will tell you what you video file needs to run and if you have it installed or not. Then find the missing pieces here (below link) and install.

www.etplanet.net/download/moviecodec.shtm


>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 20th June 10:38

[nevpugh308]

rpguk said:

It sounds like the reason it never downloads the codec is because you have a firewall blocking access to the internet for the media player, try allowing that first, its a lot easier then tracking down codecs manually.

Well, I use Zonealarm but normally it asks me when something new tries to access the i/net. Plus this is a long standing problem I've had (before I got BB/router/Zonealarm) ...

Thanks for all the other replies .... I'll investigate shortly (just as soon as some damn inconsiderate person stops giving me work to to ! )