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Which Codec's is Best To Use?

May 25, 2010 10:06AM PDT

I run Window's 7 and I have "Window's 7 Codec Pack 2.5.0 installed. The problem is that my

video's are coming out on the dark side kinda. Should I keep using this codec pack or should I

add another codec pack along with this one or should I unistall this one and add something

else and what would that something else be? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Many

thanks and God bless.

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May 25, 2010 8:06PM PDT

I deleted a reply from here. It was uncalled for and unnecessary.

Arctic123, sorry about that.

About your codec problem. The difficulty is that videos can be encoded using a whole plethora of different codecs, and adding codec packs can cause more problems than fixes.

You could try a different media player. The VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ is a free, open source player that includes it's own codecs, and this more often than not works for most videos.

Mark

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Which Codec's is Best To Use?
May 27, 2010 8:31PM PDT