I wanted to watch a movie for the first time since getting a new motherboard and reinstalling windows on this oc, but they wouldn't play properly in media player. so i went back to the site i downloaded the video and subtitle files from and it suggested i download a certain codec... but that didn't help, so i think i tried downloading another one... but can't really remember. it still didn't work so i downloaded divx player and the divx codecs, but divx player freezes every time i open it up. google told me that i might have conflicting codecs, and i should delete the ones i don't want.
in device manager there are 13 items listen under video codecs... divx 6.9.2, xvid mpeg 4, indeo video 5.10, and several others with more random names. when i go to remove one it warns me that i could be about to **** up my system...
which ones do you think i need to delete (and are safe to delete) to get movies working?
Answers & Comments
Uninstall any codecs or codec packs that you installed and start over, don't uninstall or delete any codecs that are part of Windows.
Only install one codec pack at a time, uninstall it before installing a different pack to avoid problems.
You should be able to play almost anything by installing ffdshow tryouts,
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
or you could go with one of the k-lite codec packs (they all use ffdshow)
To know what codecs you specifically need to play a certain video use Media Info lite
http://download.cnet.com/MediaInfo-Lite/3000-2248_...
it will tell you everything you need to know about a specific media file.