"Essential codecs (for playback) ??" Tue Nov-29-05 08:01 AM by Deluge
im not too familiar with this kinda stuff but lately ive been VJing w/ my laptop (doing live video mixing at clubs w/ programs such as Resolume.com)
anyway i experience trouble w/ some videofiles every now and then and i was wondering what the essential codecs are for viewing i used to have that klite codec pack installed but was told by a fellow vj the other night that that shit is crap. i uninstalled it and i got the latest divx installed. most things seem to work fine (but if anybody has a tip on which codecs to install and not its very welcome) but streaming in WMP sometimes comes with this error:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is not supported. If you typed a URL in the Open URL dialog box, try using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:").
InstruMental Member since Nov 10th 2005 12463 posts
Tue Nov-29-05 11:59 AM
1. "Streaming, unfortunately, needs to be executed by cats who" In response to Reply # 0
know what they're doing, and not all streamed files are placed by such experts. There could be a couple of things on their end that screw the process up before it ever gets to you.
Plus, if they're streaming .avi files (not too common though), there's as many codecs out there as there are characters in traditional Mandarin script.
If this is a consistent problem with WM, it might not like your Mac (Thanks a lot Bill) or your installation could be corrupted, that's happened to me before.
This might not have any new answers in it (caveat emptor)
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this link is to a codec pack, but pretty much any codec u may need can be found on that site
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