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[babytee]

What do I need to be able to watch/listen to a file? I dl files from TVtorrents and use bittorrent. It says to dl the ffdshow codec pack for video and ac3 pack for audi but when I opend the ac3 to install I get stuff at the start up promt. Any geniuses out there willing to help? Thanks

[thelefteyeguy]

i hear good things from "videolan" VLC player

[MkmBandit]

i hear good things from "videolan" VLC player

VLC is the most flexible media player available. Plays more formats then any other. I 2nd VLC

[babytee]

so I just need to dl the player itself? No other additional codecs or anything? I'm so clueless.

[deep]

I'm still more of a fan of Media Player Classic, but I do use VLC for MKV files....for some reason, MPC can't FFD or REW through them on my machine.

[SALTY3142]

1 more for VLC here, plays whatever I need, very easy interface also

[bionicbadger]

I use BSplayer for everything, but have heard good things about VLC too

[atforum]

so I just need to dl the player itself? No other additional codecs or anything? I'm so clueless.

yes download and install from here
http://www.videolan.org/

no additional codecs are necessary for vlan

[ShadowVlican]

VLC for people who JUST WANT IT TO WORK

CCCP for pros

[Octavius]

K-Lite Codec Pack

http://home. hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm

It's played everything I've ever thrown at it...and I've thrown it a lot of really weird stuff O_o

[Gee]

I also vote VLC. Plain simple, No CoDecs needed

[PennyArcade]

CCCP HANDS down.

It contains every codec you will need and comes bundled with MPC (which I like better than VLC).

The codecs contained in the package also have the benefit of being tested as a package, so that there aren't codecs tripping over each other, trying to play your movies. MPC is also very light and is not a system hog.

Oh, and also has no malware.

Get it here

VLC is good as well, I just like the CCCP package better.

[rabbit]

Generally, all you need is XviD for video, as it's almost universally compatible (eg. the MP3 format for video) -> http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

Don't know about FFDShow, but for AC3, I use http://ac3filter.net/

BTW, pros don't get codec packs. They just download what they need . Who wants bloat?

[ShadowVlican]

Generally, all you need is XviD for video, as it's almost universally compatible (eg. the MP3 format for video) -> http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

Don't know about FFDShow, but for AC3, I use http://ac3filter.net/

BTW, pros don't get codec packs. They just download what they need . Who wants bloat?

CCCP was made by pros

read their wiki and you'll come to understand why it's the only pack you'll ever need

i used to do it "your" way.. downloading codecs that i only needed... until CCCP came along that had the same stuff i was downloading separately

[babytee]

Wow, so much info. Now I am even more confused! How can there be so many options for preforming the same task?