Codecs; As long as they are installed correctly and not missing, out of date or causing incompatibilities everything is fine. Codec related problems may take some time to fix. Many users like to resolve codec issues by installing a codec pack, or switching to a media player using binary codecs. That’s fine and often works, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It sometimes can be quite difficulty to find out why a video is not playing properly on a computer system. This is even more true for inexperienced users who usually solve the problem by installing yet another codec package. That’s obviously not the best way of dealing with the matter as the installation of codec [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Normally users check video files and their required codecs to make sure the file plays properly on their system. But there are some users – including myself – who want to know the codecs that are installed on a system. This is useful for compatibility and playback reasons, for example to make sure that a [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software, Windows

Want to send a video to your friend that you found on Youtube only to find out that Youtube is blocked at his school or workplace or that the video is not playable because it is missing the needed codec and the installation of new applications or codecs is blocked ? Audio / Video to [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

SMPlayer is my video player of choice. It comes with the most commonly used video and audio codecs installed and it is quite uncommon that one runs into a video that cannot be played out of the box in SMPlayer. A great advantage of SMPlayer in my opinion is the way it stores the codecs. [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software, Tools

Do you know which audio and video codecs are installed on your operating system ? Did you know that you can easily find that out by using Windows tools ? I think it is nice to know that you can find about all installed codecs without having to use third party applications. I will recommend a third party program at the end which can be used to received additional information.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

I do not like Codec packages. You may ask why that is the case and my answer would be that they tend to install more than is needed to run the videos on your computer. There are also lots of fake codec packages out there that install viruses and trojans on your system.

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

I’m normally not a friend of codec packs because they tend to install many codecs that are not needed on most systems and could pose compatibility problems with codecs already installed on the system. Windows Vista on the other hand misses some essential codecs that can be quite easily added with the Vista Codec Package which can be customized during installation. That is right, unlike other codec packages you can select to install all or only some of the codecs offered.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

If you use the Windows Vista Media Center you might have noticed that playback for various formats is not supported by default. You can’t playback divx, xvid or h.264 movies or play mp3 or aac files by default which is really annoying if you want or have to use the media center.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows