It is not uncommon that dozens or even hundreds of audio and video codecs get installed on a computer system over time. Some are installed by applications, some by codec packs and some manually by the user. Besides compatibility and playback problems that can arise out of this it also means that video codecs stop working properly. Many of these codecs might not be needed depending on the video player in use. SMPlayer for example uses binary codecs that do not need to be installed making many of the installed video codecs redundant.
Video Sniper is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that will display all audio and video codecs that are installed on a computer system. The codecs are listed by class, name, path and name, version and most importantly status.
The status is either ok or broken. The latter meaning that the codec is not properly installed on the computer system anymore. These codecs – and actually all the others – can be deleted easily by pressing the delete button in the application. The delete button will work on all installed codecs on the computer system which means users should be very careful before pressing the delete button.
Another option provided by the software program is to save the list of codecs in text format on the computer system.
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I’ve always used K-Lite’s Codec Tweak Tool, which includes detecting/fixing broken codecs and broken DirectShow Filters, but I’ll give ‘Codec Sniper’ a try. Thanks Martin for the topic.
Do you know Filmerit , what is also a freeware application, for cleaning and managing the DirectShow filters . http://paul.glagla.free.fr/filmerit_en.htm
It sounded cool – until I landed on their page and my SiteAdvisor went yellow.
Thanks, but no thanks. Back to K-Lite.