best media codec pack?


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I had ffdshow on the previous installs but I am suspicious that it might have been causing some problems. Are there any media codec packs that is compatable with Windows 7 along with a media player?

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Note that CCCP includes the "tryout" branch of ffdshow (although of course you deselect it during installation). If you have been using a non-tryout version (which haven't been updated in quite some time) you should certainly try the new one.

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Use CCCP, as mentioned above - One of the best codec packs out there, don't go with those randoms never-heard-of packs, they tend to screw up systems.

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ACE Mega CodecS Pack v6.03

Are you serious? LOL

Anyway, use CCCP. You can get mkv thumbnails on 64bit 7 by opening the video folder with 32bit explorer.

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Are you serious? LOL

Anyway, use CCCP. You can get mkv thumbnails on 64bit 7 by opening the video folder with 32bit explorer.

I opened the video folder with the explorer form the syswow64 folder, but nothing happened. I tried to kill the normaly running explorer and opening the syswow64 explorer only too. Still nothing. I have CCCP installed only ! Any ideas ?

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I opened the video folder with the explorer form the syswow64 folder, but nothing happened. I tried to kill the normaly running explorer and opening the syswow64 explorer only too. Still nothing. I have CCCP installed only ! Any ideas ?

Tried the File > Quick Open File... dialog in MPC-HC?

Also, have you checked these 2 boxes during install?

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh46/_b...CCPsettings.png

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ACE Mega CodecS Pack v6.03
As already noted, this is an accidentally retarded suggestion.

ACE is the ABSOLUTE WORST codec pack.

It includes:

* Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher - hijacks IAMStreamSwitch but implements it wrong so it'll crash every time

* Voxware MetaSound - does a double memory free so will randomly crash any application calling ACMEnumerate. Vista SP1 disables this codec it's so bad

* DivX 5.2 - the old broken version that has NULL pointer crashes

* 2004 FFDShow - much known brokenness which is why there's been new versions for five years now

* Indeo Audio Codec - blows up on MPEG2 pin enumeration, which means that MPEG2-aware DirectShow apps such as DVDMaker will stop working.

Can we quit suggesting this garbage? I'm sorry the owners don't have enough pride to have tested their warez originally nor to have pulled that sorry sack from the net, but come on- that's been broken for five years now. Get in the game, man. lol

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I found out that on 7 all I had to install was the core avc (for mkv). And vobsub for subtitles. Any other video I have just played right from the start, including divx, xvid and mov. Even ac3 audio was decoded without any 3rd party codec :)

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<snipped> the most complete & best 3rd party codec packs available out there. if you wanna a built-it codec player then use The KMPlayer.

Edited by John S.
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bleh, I'm done with codec packs. I just use KMPlayer. SO much simpler

Yep. You really don't need a "codec pack" unless you like AIDS.

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I found out that on 7 all I had to install was the core avc (for mkv). And vobsub for subtitles. Any other video I have just played right from the start, including divx, xvid and mov. Even ac3 audio was decoded without any 3rd party codec :)

+1

You don't need anything else.

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Thanks for the CCCP recommendation. It works great.

Others: I have a DVD video camera that records into files in VOB format. I tried to play it in WMP but it won't play it.

How about a MOV player? My digital still camera records videos in that format.

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Do the MOVs work fine in WMP? Windows 7 RC has MPEG4-MOV support.

What happens when you try to play the VOB in WMP?

Both those should generally work by default AFAIA.

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