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Posted by rival on Fri May 27th at 11:27pm 2005

im trying to play an avi on windows media player and it says it requires a codec. Where can i get the right one, is media player the best thing to use?
id really appreciate some advice on my self-confessed noobish question.



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri May 27th at 11:36pm 2005

I personally use www.doom9.org but to each their own as they say.

try the Gordian Knot codec pack.

you can always google search for newest codecs.

I also strictly use viplay to watch movies with.





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Posted by satchmo on Fri May 27th at 11:57pm 2005

I thought this topic came up before, and the answer is to use G-spot that identifies all codecs.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 28th at 12:00am 2005

? quoting satchmo
I thought this topic came up before, and the answer is to use G-spot that identifies all codecs.

Now THIS would be a God send. Care to elaborate Satch?





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Posted by Crono on Sat May 28th at 12:50am 2005

? quoting Orpheus
? quoting satchmo
I thought this topic came up before, and the answer is to use G-spot that identifies all codecs.

Now THIS would be a God send. Care to elaborate Satch?


He has before. There was an entire thread where everyone spouted how to get good codecs and find out which ones you need.

And I hate ViPlay, bloated, just like the new Media Players. Media Player Classic is alright, it's very simple and small.

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or perhaps not. weird.

Anyway, if you're playing an AVI and windows or any other player on your computer bitches: It's Divx. You can grab a divx codec which is separate from the player here.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Myrk- on Sat May 28th at 1:03am 2005

Just get the latest codecs from a site (search on google and there will be sites listing all codecs you'll ever need really) and play it with anything but wmp... WMP seems to skip every 10 seconds slightly, not very good with video really.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 28th at 1:09am 2005

? quoting Crono



And I hate ViPlay, bloated,
[edit]
or perhaps not. weird.

or perhaps... most don't care.

I fell in love with ViPlay from day 1 and have used it ever since. Its got what I need/want.

/story.

Still doesn't answer, what is G-Spot?





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Posted by Crono on Sat May 28th at 1:24am 2005

? quote:

or perhaps... most don't care. image
I fell in love with ViPlay from day 1 and have used it ever since. Its got what I need/want.
/story.
Still doesn't answer, what is G-Spot?


Or perhaps that comment wasn't meant towards you. ViPlay is still not a great player. In any case, he was asking about codecs.

G-Spot is a program in which tells you the codecs you need to play whatever video/ audio file. It also tells you if you have any codecs installed that can play that file.

I know there was another thread that covered all of this not too long ago.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 28th at 1:38am 2005

? quoting Crono


I know there was another thread that covered all of this not too long ago.

I believe you Crono, need I remind you that I am gone for days at a time?

I don't mean to rehash this, I will seek out the other thread... If I can figure out the keywords :P





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Posted by SaintGreg on Sat May 28th at 6:22am 2005

VLC media player has eaten everything I've thrown at it, even stuff that WMP wouldn't play.



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Posted by G4MER on Sat May 28th at 5:09pm 2005

I have WinAmp, and DivX, and there has not been a movie I cant watch yet.. Im assuming this is because most of the codecs are built into the two.

Now I refuse to watch any Real Time flick.. Real Time is da Debil! THE DEBIL!





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Posted by Monqui on Sat May 28th at 7:24pm 2005

If you're looking for a streamlined player, you can't get much more streamlined than mplayer. It has a windows port, but that's command line only (you can still associate files with it, so that it simply plays the files).

I enjoy it. It seems to have a decent codec support base. The only common file I've found it doesn't like are realmedia files. Which sucks.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html , if you want to check it out.


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Posted by Crono on Sat May 28th at 7:36pm 2005

And that's why you get a Non-Official RealMedia codec .... Like this one:

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


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Posted by Monqui on Sat May 28th at 7:39pm 2005

Aaah- yes. Thanks. I've been trying to remember the name of that damn thing for a while now.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 28th at 7:42pm 2005

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