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[whytemyke]

I need a good video player for my computer. I've got Media Player Classic, WMP, Real player, quicktime, etc... and I just downloaded a video file of south park from a couple weeks ago, and none of these will play it. Media Player Classic says I need to download a codec, but everytime I go they want me to download entire programs.

Any quick solution? It's filename is supposedly an .avi but when MPC went to get a codec it said it was looking for mpeg-4 player.

Any ideas you guys have would be much appreciated.

 

[scorcho]

you dont need a new player, you need the codec. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

 

[whytemyke]

yeah, but then the readme is saying that I now have to download another program and only certain parts of it... so that it can run Linux files.

*in towelie voice* i have no idea whats goin on

 

[scorcho]

what?

 

[whytemyke]

it's got me downloading cygwin just to open up the codec, and cygwin was like an hour download or so...

i'm wondering if this is worth it anymore.

 

[scorcho]

that shouldn't force you to download anything to run

 

[Anthropic]

You don't need to compile FFDShow to get it to work. You just need to download it from somewhere with a binary, rather than the SourceForge site where the source is hosted.

 

[Ecrofirt]

If you're having such a problem, get something like the k-lite codec pack.

 

[MIMIC]

How bout DivX. It's a pretty good player and it comes with all the relevant codecs for most video files.

 

[scorcho]

You don't need to compile FFDShow to get it to work. You just need to download it from somewhere with a binary, rather than the SourceForge site where the source is hosted.

who says that sourceforge is only hosting the sources? i've been getting my binaries there for ages.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ffdshow/ffdshow-20020617.exe?download

 

[Anthropic]

So they do. I use the excellent DefilerPak for my copy of ffdshow. In this case though, this guy decided to download the source.

 

[pestul]

Whichever Xvid codec I'm using covers all MPEG4 files for me.. no problems. I just use WMP Classic (VLC Player on occasion).

 

[scorcho]

So they do. I use the excellent DefilerPak for my copy of ffdshow. In this case though, this guy decided to download the source.

which is why some people should need to take a competency exam before using a computer

 

[whytemyke]

working. thanks all...

 

[Memles]

DivX works for most, VLC Player works for pretty much all. DivX is slightly more user friendly for my use, but sometimes they just don't play so I have to use VLC.