What are codecs and where can i find them to play downloaded films

Question

codecs required to open content keeps comming up

Answer 1

Codecs decode the video/audio information in a file and allow you to view/listen to them on your computer. Common codecs these days are DivX(video) and MP3(Audio).

Download the Combined Community Codec Pack (http://www.cccp-project.net/) and that should solve most of your problems.

Also recommend is the VideoLAN player which has so far played every video file I've chucked at it. Download from http://www.videolan.org/

Answer 2

K-Lite Codec's 321

Dont bother configuring, just leave all the box's blank, its an interactive program.

Answer 3

Here, try downloading this.

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/downloa...

Nath

Answer 4

Try The Player on http://www.mpcstar.com/

Very Simple and feturestic

Accoding to My experience. It can

play almost play movie in any format.

Answer 5

There are a couple of good media players that have there own codecs

They can therefoe play nearly every video file type

One player is

VLC Player

http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Player...

Gomplayer

http://www.download.com/GOM-Media-Player...

I use Gomplayer, because VLC was much more complecated than Gomplayer. If VLC would have been the only player, I would have figureded everything out, but now there is Gomplayer, I did not bother

When you choose gomplayer go to preferences    others    select all

File Types    Codec

Answer 6

They are files needed to play recent kind of videos, sometimes your player might not have a format for playing some kind of videos e.g.

mpeg, mpg, flv, avi e.t.c. with the codecs it will enable that operation.

Update or upgrade your player and you will get codecs.

Let's say you use .......... as your player search with google for site's home page for codecs.

Answer 7

I recommend using VLC media player (it can play anything). Best part is it's free, open source and completely free of spyware. It is also the most popular player out there.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

If you also want free codecs, the Divx codec or K-Lite codec pack or should allow your media player (e.g. Windows Media Player) to able to play 99% of all the videos that you download from the internet.

Answer 8

try this http://www.divx.com/