What cooodec?! Confuddled!

[Pheebs]

Well... I'm presuming I need to download a codec!

Have an avi file (thanking you Lozza!) which I can watch on my xbox buuut if I try and watch it on my poota it only has audio and no piccie!

I haaaaaave... windows media player version... erm... 11.0.6000.6352? I presume that's just version 11 :p

Any ideas people? I don't want to download lots of gumph I don't need see :)

Thanking you!

[Knipples]

I had this once, the only thing I could do was to download div x and watch my films and stuff via that, it seemed to get round all the codec issues that WMP would throw up.

[Glaucus]

Easy way is just to download VLC and use that to play the file. It will play most things.

Otherwise there is a piece of software you can download which inspects the file and tells you exactly what codec you need. however I can't remember he name.

[Knipples]

*sniggers*

We've both just done the very thing that she said she didnt want! ;D

[Pheebs]

What's this VLC thingy then?! I don't mind downloading it I just don't want the pickmeister being all "You've downloaded lots of random stuff again haven't you!" :D

As long as I can justify it :D

[Pheebs]

Oooh just looked up VLC... they have ones for windows 98,99 etc but I canny see one that's for Vista?

[Glaucus]

http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/1.0.1/win32/vlc-1.0.1-win32.exe

[Briggykins]

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html - you want the 'Latest Packages' one. That's for Vista.
If that doesn't work (or even if it does, I don't like VLC much) , I recommend http://shark007.net/ - the Shark Codec package which'll let you play pretty much anything in anything.

[Pheebs]

Oooooooooooooh! It works it works! Yaaaaaay! Thanking you :D

[Will]

I use 2 codecs normally. XVid and DivX.

However if all else fails I use VLC too. :)

[Pheebs]

All sorted here now! Yay! Thanking you all muchly!

Smooches all round for my working avi! :D

[Daz]

Otherwise there is a piece of software you can download which inspects the file and tells you exactly what codec you need. however I can't remember he name.
Gspot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/) :)

[Knipples]

Must...........resist.......:p

[Glaucus]

Must...........resist.......:p

nah, just lie back and relax. ;)

[Pickers]

Ironically we had VLAN installed already... Bless my lovely other half :p

[Psymonkee]

Zoom Player has a nifty codec installer built into the installation :D

Failing that grabbing the CCCP (http://www.cccp-project.net/) helps!

[divine]

CCCP is one of the first things I install on a new install.