Phantasm66
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Codec Blues
Ok Phantazmm takes a small break from work, with the partial purpose of catching up on some TV he hasn't had the time to get through.
Using Kazaa, IRC and so forth he collects well over 20 GB of "Friends" "Enterprise" "Deep Space Nine" episodes as well as a number of movies. With crisps, nuts, donuts and milk shakes at the ready he settles down in from of the entertainment system that has his PC at its heart and fires up some stuff.....
Most of the movies are fine, being encoded with Divx for video and mp3 for audio.
But when he comes to lots of the series episodes, there is a problem:
Often, the video stream has been encoded with Divx, but the audio stream is some other, unknown codec.
When he tries to play it, Windows Media Player cries out about contacting a codec server, and even goes through the pretense of downloading the appropriate codec.....
Which of course does not work.
This is made even more frustrating because when Phantazmm examines what the .avi reckons its audio codec was, its labelled "Windows Media Audio V2"....
Now, one would expect that to play in Windows Media Player under XP with pretty much no problems... eh??? Well you would be surprised.
So does this spoil Phantazmm's holiday when he can't find out if Rachel has that baby in the final ep of friends season 8 or whether the Dominion win in Deep Space Nine??
Of course not!
He has the fortune to find the "Nimo Codec Pack" (http://nimo.everwicked.com/ ) which offers nearly all of the video and audio codecs a chappie will ever need!
He did uninstall Divx and its Player bits and bobs first. Nimo adds it again, but Phantazmm redownloaded the latest version and reinstalled afterward.....
He is now very happy to be able to report that indeed the Dominion are given a kicking at the end of Deep Space Nine....
http://nimo.everwicked.com/
Ok Phantazmm takes a small break from work, with the partial purpose of catching up on some TV he hasn't had the time to get through.
Using Kazaa, IRC and so forth he collects well over 20 GB of "Friends" "Enterprise" "Deep Space Nine" episodes as well as a number of movies. With crisps, nuts, donuts and milk shakes at the ready he settles down in from of the entertainment system that has his PC at its heart and fires up some stuff.....
Most of the movies are fine, being encoded with Divx for video and mp3 for audio.
But when he comes to lots of the series episodes, there is a problem:
Often, the video stream has been encoded with Divx, but the audio stream is some other, unknown codec.
When he tries to play it, Windows Media Player cries out about contacting a codec server, and even goes through the pretense of downloading the appropriate codec.....
Which of course does not work.
This is made even more frustrating because when Phantazmm examines what the .avi reckons its audio codec was, its labelled "Windows Media Audio V2"....
Now, one would expect that to play in Windows Media Player under XP with pretty much no problems... eh??? Well you would be surprised.
So does this spoil Phantazmm's holiday when he can't find out if Rachel has that baby in the final ep of friends season 8 or whether the Dominion win in Deep Space Nine??
Of course not!
He has the fortune to find the "Nimo Codec Pack" (http://nimo.everwicked.com/ ) which offers nearly all of the video and audio codecs a chappie will ever need!
He did uninstall Divx and its Player bits and bobs first. Nimo adds it again, but Phantazmm redownloaded the latest version and reinstalled afterward.....
He is now very happy to be able to report that indeed the Dominion are given a kicking at the end of Deep Space Nine....
http://nimo.everwicked.com/