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
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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