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09-28-2006, 03:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-28-2006, 04:05 PM by Joshy.)
Well, i was watching movies i downloaded earlier just fine on Windows Media Player a few hours ago now when i try to watch any videos at all it doesn't come up with a video it just has sound, and at the bottom it says ''Connecting to Codec Server .. Sending request for codec .. Error downloading codec'' its really pissing me off cause i dont think i did anything and it never did this before, does anyone have any idea how i can fix this problem?
EDIT: I posted in the wrong section on accident, my bad, this should go in the tech section of the forum.
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K-Lite Codec Pack will play 99% of all videos
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main video types for xp are divx, xvid and direct x. The newer ones are mkv, mp4, mpeg-4 layer and 4gp. an xp pack and poor mans codecs should do fine.
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K-Lite is clean, trust me.
Yes, there are codec packs that have malware. The one mentioned is not one of those.
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Thanks alot guys, i got it working i just downloaded K-Lite, and it works very well, but i dont know why it stopped playing videos in the first place it never had any problems playing videos before until last night.
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It was a video encoded in some format not normally supported by WMP. It was obviousally one of the formats supported by K-Lite and it recognized it.
Some files like .avi are almost always DivX, but other file formats can range from no codec needed to 2-3 different ones depending on how it was encoded.
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some of the newer videos have been encoded wierd, my cousin downloaded an mpg of some wierd video but the encoding format was more mkv than mpg. could be that.
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Use Media player classic (part of klite) prefer it over everything else.
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if classic isnt your style, theres bs player. its like media player but with more codec choices that it uses.
