Ligos Mpeg Video Splitter

[iluvJLO]

I have a probelm playing vcds and svcds in my media player 6.4. Everytime I play them, the video looks all weird. Like its been squeezed too thin with black bars on the side, or bars on the top and bottom when its not supposed to be there. I looked in the properties and it has Ligos Mpeg Splitter and Ligos Video Decoder. I don't ever recall installing this, but theres no way for me to uninstall it. How can I get rid of this crap?

[teegee420]

DxMan can take care of that for you. By the way, if you use Media Player Classic there's no need to install another mpeg-2 decoder. It has its own built right in.

[lordsmurf]

LIGOS is not crap. It's probably some of the best decoder/encoder hardware/software around. I use LIGOS almost religiously, and it's not cheap. Their GoMotion hardware (or a derivative) is found in the ATI Theatre cards, and the software codec came with my Premiere 6.0 with the optional LSX add-on encoder. I doubt it would "phantom" it's way on your PC, more likely from other less-savory reasons.

Anyhow, that said, LIGOS, like all others, it NOT perfect. None of them are. It will puke on badly-made MPEG files. This is probably your situation. I have to switch to another MPEG codec on my system quite often for crappy-made downloads (normally fan-converted trailers and samples I'm sent by others).

Windows Media Player absolutely sucks for playing MPEG files. If you use WMP, you'll have to make sure you have the Microsoft MPEG-1 codec in use. If it's MPEG-2, then use a real MPEG player like PowerDVD or WinDVD.