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RE: Codec's

garyhopkin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:11:27 GMT

[url]http://www.cccp-project.net/[/url]

this small pack caters for divx/xvid aswell as some hi def material,it also bundles 2 media players and is pretty compact with just installing the necassary stuff.

RE: Codec's

Mitch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:06:29 GMT

You may have hit the nail on the head Silver. I had ffdshow installed and had al-sorts of problems with burning DVD's (as you clearly remember) so I decided to remove ffdshow and start to look for better quality codecs but now very little is playing and I am getting fed-up with searching for codecs again. You can't win.

The curious thing about all the problems I was having burning DVD's was, (before I uninstalled the ffdshow) if I created the DVD using Vista Movie Maker and then burnt it with Vista DVD Maker, they burnt well and of a decent quality for playback on my DVD Player, but Nero with ffdshow codecs (I assume it was using ffdshow codecs) wouldn't work and the picture pixelated and broke up on my DVD Player. I guess it isn't necessarily the codec packs fault (ffdshow) although I assume Vista uses it's own codecs with Movie and DVD maker, so that is why I decided to remove ffdshow.

Can you confirm if Movie Maker and DVD Maker do use their own codecs or will it have used ffdshow? I may download the x64 codec pack from Slippy's link and see if I have more luck. What do you think?

RE: Codec's

Silver — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:56:19 GMT

What Slipstreem's hinted at is very true. You need to be careful with 'packs'. In fact, a pack may be what fubared your XviD/DivX codecs. They certainly have for others as they often cause more problems than they solve - making previously working codecs unuseable.

If you don't actually need a pack, I'd instead seek out individual codecs as and when you need them. And always from reliable sources.

I think people tend to grab packs because they've become the standard reply for a (supposed) quick fix for all things in one go, but that doesn't mean it's the right info or right thing to do.

RE: Codec's

Slipstreem — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:46:35 GMT

"ffdshow" seems to be maintained by people who actually know what they're doing, unlike a certain other codec pack I could mention. It excels in anything MPEG-4 related and you can download the latest version [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/]HERE[/url].

For encoding, try Vidomi as used in the MPEG-4 Encoding Race thread. It's free and it works. :)

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

Codec's

Mitch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:37:16 GMT

Can anyone tell me where I can find a decent Codec pack from? Free if possible. I am having problems with xVid and Divx decoding and encoding.