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[Johnny English]

Hi all,

my PC collapsed a week ago    and after op sys reinstalling I can't see online video contents as such picture as sound streaming is faltering hard... I've tried to play some family video off from an other driver successfully so I'm a bit puzzled. Do different codecs responsible for online streaming and a smooth video watching from say driver "D" ?  Google having been used of course, tons of codec packs were found on the net I have no idea in point of choosing the best though... Any advice please!

Regards

Laszlo

[AndyRoid]

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack has all the codecs you will ever need.
As far as the stuttering sound goes, did you also reinstall all of your system drivers (eg, chipset, disk controller, sound, etc)?

[Ever Ready]

What operating system are you using as this makes a big difference?

K-Lite is a good call as is vlc player,Winamp etc

Since W7-8 I have been less reliant on codecs and have used wmp

[bigegg]

xbmc?

[dbug]

Download VLC

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols

Its opensource (freeware), and yet to find a media format it can't cope with (even played some proprietry CCTV video clips that nothing else would)

Get it here - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

[Johnny English]

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack has all the codecs you will ever need.
As far as the stuttering sound goes, did you also reinstall all of your system drivers (eg, chipset, disk controller, sound, etc)?

 I wasn't the one who did it but a guy in a close PC shop so as far as I know the only reinstalled thing was the op system (Win XP).

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack has all the codecs you will ever need.
As far as the stuttering sound goes, did you also reinstall all of your system drivers (eg, chipset, disk controller, sound, etc)?

Download VLC

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols

Its opensource (freeware), and yet to find a media format it can't cope with (even played some proprietry CCTV video clips that nothing else would)

Get it here - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Thx guys! 

[TheBoy]

Never ever ever install a codec pack. Ever. It will impact the entire multimedia subsystem, and most my-knob-is-bigger-than-yours codec "packs" actually install conflicting codecs. More codecs = compromised VFW chain, and prone to breaks which are pretty much impossible to fix.

Dig out the codecs you need, and just install those. Most people will get away with just ffdshow.

[AndyRoid]

and most my-knob-is-bigger-than-yours codec "packs" actually install conflicting codecs.

Never personally had an issue with K-Lite, although I have only ever installed on a clean build.