Your Opinion Please

[musotechy]

Hi All,


I have now set up my dedicated video machine (XP Pro)

I will be ripping, encoding, transcoding and burning. I know there has been a few discussions regarding loading or not loading codecs. My question is, should I load codecs or not. I do not intend playing the files on this new machine but wondered if any of the software requires them to be able to do it's job. I will be using:

DVDDecrypter
VCDEasy
InstantCopy
DVD2AVI
VitualDub
DIVFix
IfoEdit
TMPGEnc
Instant Hidden Settings

And some light use of Ulead DVD Workshop.

Many thanks in advance for any help given.

Thanks

[bugster]

If you want to re-encode any file from its original format to another (e.g divx to mpeg-2) then you need to be able to decode it to the same extent that a player application would. i.e, you need the right codec.

My advice w.r.t codecs is to only install a new one if you find a need for it. Do not install codec packs, get the original codec and install just that.