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Andres Perales
Can any one tell me, how to tell what CODECS are installed on my machine? I know which CODECS are the ones I have installed. But where is the list of ALL CODECS installed.
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Bob
Download & install ZoomPlayer (a free media player).
Click on the Options button (icon with a check mark).
Select Manual Filters in the column on the left.
Click on Registered Filter Manager in the center panel.
Not only will this show you all the CODECs that are
installed/registered on your PC, it provides you with
the ability to unregister them, or change their merit
values.
-Bob
Can any one tell me, how to tell what CODECS are installed on my machine? I know which CODECS are the ones I have installed. But where is the list of ALL CODECS installed.
Click on the Options button (icon with a check mark).
Select Manual Filters in the column on the left.
Click on Registered Filter Manager in the center panel.
Not only will this show you all the CODECs that are
installed/registered on your PC, it provides you with
the ability to unregister them, or change their merit
values.
-Bob
Can any one tell me, how to tell what CODECS are installed on my machine? I know which CODECS are the ones I have installed. But where is the list of ALL CODECS installed.
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Ray
D
Digger
Here are a few of the codec utilities that I either use myself, or have used
at some point. All have strengths and weaknesses, but, short of spending
some really big bucks for a commercial utility, should give you some good
info.
GSpot:
Codec Information Appliance...
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Analogx:
ACM Properties...
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/program/acmprop.htm
DXMan...
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/dxman.htm
at some point. All have strengths and weaknesses, but, short of spending
some really big bucks for a commercial utility, should give you some good
info.
GSpot:
Codec Information Appliance...
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Analogx:
ACM Properties...
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/program/acmprop.htm
DXMan...
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/dxman.htm
J
John Kelly
Hi there,
You do not need any special mega-buck set of tools or any tools that are
"free" All you need do is.........
Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager
From those windows you can remove, change settings where allowed and change
the order they are inspected by for example movie maker.
Special software is not required.
You do not need any special mega-buck set of tools or any tools that are
"free" All you need do is.........
Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager
complete list of both Audio and Video codecs.Sound Video and Game Controllers and right before your eyes will be the
From those windows you can remove, change settings where allowed and change
the order they are inspected by for example movie maker.
Special software is not required.
B
Bob
There can be MANY more codecs installed on a PC than the few that show up in
the device manager. If you were to try ZoomPlayer or GraphEdit (a "free"
Microsoft product), you would see what I mean.
What I see listed in device manager are "compressor" codecs only. There
were no "decoders", which are the types of codecs that have been known to
cause problems importing certain media formats into Movie Maker.
-Bob
the device manager. If you were to try ZoomPlayer or GraphEdit (a "free"
Microsoft product), you would see what I mean.
What I see listed in device manager are "compressor" codecs only. There
were no "decoders", which are the types of codecs that have been known to
cause problems importing certain media formats into Movie Maker.
-Bob
J
John Kelly
Hi there Mr Bob
In that case your system is not displaying all of its information...there
are loads of codecs viewable by that option...indeed the first one I looked
at when you open its properties is both a Compressor and Decompressor. I
should re-check your rather strong and incorrect statement if I were you.
Would YOU like a short video made available so as to see how wrong you are?
Anyway, aren't you the one who has claimed to put me in the kill file, or
was that just more bravado
In that case your system is not displaying all of its information...there
are loads of codecs viewable by that option...indeed the first one I looked
at when you open its properties is both a Compressor and Decompressor. I
should re-check your rather strong and incorrect statement if I were you.
Would YOU like a short video made available so as to see how wrong you are?
Anyway, aren't you the one who has claimed to put me in the kill file, or
was that just more bravado
J
John Kelly
Hello Bob,
I have checked out the instructions given for looking at Codecs in the
program you recommend. As far as I can make out the list displayed is not
the set of codecs on your machine. It can't be, I do not have DivX and have
never had it. Yet the software gives me loads of options for adjusting it.
There were several other options for codecs that do not exist on my system
(with the proviso that they may exist in the temporary directory that I
unzipped the program in to.
In the registered filter manager I can see loads of info on dll's that are
nothing at all to do with codecs in the sense of playing video or audio,
and found that it seems to class a dll of my own creation which is in fact
a customized dialog box for opening still images in a database program I
wrote. These images are stored as blob data within a dataset and do not
have file names let alone a file name extionsion that could be read by a
program
At the time of writing I can see no indication of what you claim this
program is capable of. What I do see is an overcomplicated list of all of
the functions that are available in all of the available image processing
dll's and codecs listed under their common names. I would imagine that a
closer inspection of the items offered would reveal that access to many
functions of a codec have been revealed to the common user of this program
which is both unnecessary and way beyond the ability of any person finding
a need to ask questions in windowsxp.moviemaker and therefore liable of
leading such a person into a situation that they can never on their own get
out of on their own. Clearly as such access is not normal, it follows that
the authors believed it to be either unnecessary or potentially foolish to
give the average user such access.
I grant that the program is certainly a cut above most others I have seen.
I would still not give an inexperienced person who often has difficulty
taking simple instructions in the form of a numbered list access to such a
program. In the kindest way possible, such people visit this newsgroup
because they are not adept at dealing with such issues. Giving them a
program like this is akin to giving them a stick of dynamite and telling
them it makes a big bang if lit.
My view on such a program is that it is a great program for Computer
Geek's or someone else writing a user friendly simple interface containing
the minimum of controls that needs testing...lets say something like Movie
Maker. Most of this programs capabilities, obviously extensive they may be,
are simply not wanted by the normal person who wants to click a button and
see a few home videos either played on his computer or elsewhere.
To reaffirm one point I make...you say....
It also shows information on DLL's that are not codecs or indeed anything to
do with Video or Audio, and even shows that I have DivX on my system. I have
not now or ever in the past had DivX on my system. I have no DivX media on
my system.
I have checked out the instructions given for looking at Codecs in the
program you recommend. As far as I can make out the list displayed is not
the set of codecs on your machine. It can't be, I do not have DivX and have
never had it. Yet the software gives me loads of options for adjusting it.
There were several other options for codecs that do not exist on my system
(with the proviso that they may exist in the temporary directory that I
unzipped the program in to.
In the registered filter manager I can see loads of info on dll's that are
nothing at all to do with codecs in the sense of playing video or audio,
and found that it seems to class a dll of my own creation which is in fact
a customized dialog box for opening still images in a database program I
wrote. These images are stored as blob data within a dataset and do not
have file names let alone a file name extionsion that could be read by a
program
At the time of writing I can see no indication of what you claim this
program is capable of. What I do see is an overcomplicated list of all of
the functions that are available in all of the available image processing
dll's and codecs listed under their common names. I would imagine that a
closer inspection of the items offered would reveal that access to many
functions of a codec have been revealed to the common user of this program
which is both unnecessary and way beyond the ability of any person finding
a need to ask questions in windowsxp.moviemaker and therefore liable of
leading such a person into a situation that they can never on their own get
out of on their own. Clearly as such access is not normal, it follows that
the authors believed it to be either unnecessary or potentially foolish to
give the average user such access.
I grant that the program is certainly a cut above most others I have seen.
I would still not give an inexperienced person who often has difficulty
taking simple instructions in the form of a numbered list access to such a
program. In the kindest way possible, such people visit this newsgroup
because they are not adept at dealing with such issues. Giving them a
program like this is akin to giving them a stick of dynamite and telling
them it makes a big bang if lit.
My view on such a program is that it is a great program for Computer
Geek's or someone else writing a user friendly simple interface containing
the minimum of controls that needs testing...lets say something like Movie
Maker. Most of this programs capabilities, obviously extensive they may be,
are simply not wanted by the normal person who wants to click a button and
see a few home videos either played on his computer or elsewhere.
To reaffirm one point I make...you say....
Not only will this show you all the CODECs that are
installed/registered on your PC, it provides you with
the ability to unregister them, or change their merit
values.
It also shows information on DLL's that are not codecs or indeed anything to
do with Video or Audio, and even shows that I have DivX on my system. I have
not now or ever in the past had DivX on my system. I have no DivX media on
my system.
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