I was wondering what pple here have installed. COS rite now i am using FFDshow Aug28 2004 version. I have read good reviews about it, but dont really know how it compares against other codec (packs)

 

Is there something better you would recommend?

I've got a good one after searching and searching, it plays every media format I come across.

 

Unfortunately I do not have access to my home computer right now, and it doesn't have internet access at the time, so I will have to get you the name of it, and let you know tommorow.

 

I know if you get direct connect (I'd recomend dc++) you will be able to find some people who can point you in the right direction.

i use windows media player + divx (with most of the divx codecs included) ive never come across a format i cant play and if i ever do, normally divx has a codec for it, if not then i'll deal with it when i come to it!

most of the divx codecs ?? i thought divx was only one codec. altough it does decode xvid, its terrible at doing that. thing is i can easily download one of those massive codec packs.. except they are so bloated.

i have a 2.8 ghz p4. and i use about 16% cpu, while watching a divx 5 video with mp3 audio. can someone do a similar test and put up ur cpu usage. just wanna do a benchmark

the one I got was around 50 megs. I'm wanting to say its Ace codec pack, if that rings a bell, and its around 50 mb, thats probably the one. Or, I'll let ya know for sure tommorow.

I had the Nimo codec pack installed on this thing about a year ago. not quite sure if it`s any good, but the guy that installed it said it was (who am I to argue).

I don't like using codec packs because they simply cause so many problems when you come to update them or if you have existing codecs installed on your system. I maintain my codecs manually because it's so much easier to keep up-to-date. Currently, I have installed: XviD 1.0.2, DivX5 (not sure which revision), AC3Filter (for ac3 audio decoding), OggVorbis and that's about it. I don't really need anything else because I tend not to play obscure formats that much. More or less everything I have is either DivX/XviD with either mp3 or AC3 audio or MPEG1.