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gonwk
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Joined: 11 Dec 2005
Location: UK
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Hi folks,
I just did a Fresh Install on my laptop since it was acting up pretty bad ... and before I install a Codec Pack ... I was wondering if some of the Video experts here would be kind enough to steer me in the right direction.
I have a Gateway, with Vista Home Premium, SP1, 64-Bit. And I play around with Videos, AVIs, Music, ...
Q1: Should I install Vista Codec Pack or the K-Lite codec pack? And why if you can tell me?
Q2: If you recommend K-Lite ... should I nistall the Mega or the Plain version? Please specify?
Q3: If neither then can you give me the Minimum list of the Codecs that I must have on my laptop to have things running smoothly? Like FFDSHOW, FFMPEG, ... etc.
Thanks,
G! 
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freebird73717
Man of Steel
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: Smallville
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jagabo
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Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: none
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lordsmurf
Video Restorer
Joined: 10 Jun 2003
Location: Want my advice? PM me.
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Search the forum. We've answered this 100's of time.
........ (And the answer is DO NOT INSTALL CODEC PACKS!)
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gonwk
Member
Joined: 11 Dec 2005
Location: UK
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Hi freebird73717, jagabo, and lordsmurf,
THANKS for your replies and Help.
Lordsmurf ... I think I did a cursory search and then I posted this but I will do a more "detailed" search ... I might have done a screwey search the first time ...
For Viewing I use VLC and MPC ... but I also do Video Conversions for "Fun" ... and I hope after my Search those Threads also talk about what Codecs I must have if I want to do conversions and encodings ... to & from different formats with Freeware Converters available and VDub, ...
THANKS again folks!
G!
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