Sound advice

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

OK, I have this sound problem. Recently, some of the stuff that I have... ehum... "acquired" I haven't been able to hear as I normally do. I suppose there is a codec missing or something, but how the frak am I supposed to know what it is that I'm missing?

Normally I never had to bother as long as I had the most recent version of DivX and Winamp installed. But now that doesn't help for some things. For instance, I have one thing that shows up fine in my DivX Player and in my Windows Media Player, but there's no sound. And in Winamp nothing shows up at all. And I have the up to date versions!

Help!

[CoffeeCat]

EEK. I'm not sure exactly what to tell you unless I could see it for myself - I know there is a universal codec pak you can DL for certain players, but you'd have to look it up for whatever player you're using. When in doubt, install all the frelling things.

Or, you can ditch them all and switch to VLC which will play just about anything.

[Entilzha]

K-Lite Codec Pack http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Combined Community Codec Pack http://www.cccp-project.net/
Both are good

[dark_rain]

Urgh, VLC! Painfully basic.

My advice: Pull off DivX + Winamp, then reinstall them.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

OK, now I'm just confused! There's the VLC option, two different codec packs options and then the pull and reinstall DivX and Winamp option!

[Entilzha]

I have VLC among one of the player in my computer and the K-Lite Codec Pack installed and haven't had a problem yet.

[blacknblue]

Step one - look at the file extensions for th efiles you want to play.

Step two - post the file extensions here. Or PM somebody here.

Step three - wait for one of the knowledgable ones here to to tell you which codecs you need.

Alternatively, go to mepis.org, follow the link to download the latest version of mepis (7.0 I believe) and boot the CD-ROM into a Linux operating system that comes complete with most of the codecs you will ever need except for commercial DVDs. Those you would have to DL yourself.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

It's an ordinary .avi file.

[Entilzha]

Install the K-Lite Codec Pack it has some tools in it like GSpot Codec Information that may help if you can't play some file and VLC is a good player that often plays files that the other players won't play properly.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Well, I just noticed that all those (VLC and k-lite) costs money. There's no way I'm paying for something that I should get for free with the common players out there that I already have!

[CoffeeCat]

There's actually a freeware version of vlc... I mean- that's what I have on my computer.

[blacknblue]

I have never heard of paying for VLC. I didn't even know that there WAS a commercial version. Amazing. Learn something new every day.

Another decent one is TheKMplayer.

Also try Miro 1.0 (fornerly Democracy player).

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Thanks everyone! I now have a free and functional VLC player and it played that "soundless" .avi-file with sound!

[Elessar]

VLC>>all