Too Many Codecs on System?

[me]

Too Many Codecs on System?

In another forum, when I mentioned the problems I was having with a
particular commercial video software program, someone replied that perhaps I had too many codecs on my system.

Can too many codecs cause problems? In Device manager I looked up codecs, and my system lists the following:

DIVX 5.1.1

iccvid.dll

Indeo Video 5.11

Indeo Video R3.2 by Intel

Indeo Video Raw YUV9 by Intel

ir41_32.ax

iyuv_32.dll

Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec

msh261.drv

msh263.drv

msrle32.dll

msvidc32.dll

msyuv.dll

XVID MPEG-4 Video Codec.

Well, the above is what my computer states.

I'm not familiar with all of these codecs. Are they all important to have, for someone who does some video processing?

Would anyone suggest that I get rid of some of them? Which?

By the way, I don't see WM9 codec here. Does Microsoft use their MPEG-4 codec to create .WMV videos?

By the way, my computer is running Windows XP Professional, with all the latest updates, it has 768 MB RAM, and a Pentium 4 M 2.0 gHz CPU.

If anyone thinks that something about my codec setup could be causing problems, please let me know what to change. Thank you.

[Tommyknocker]

I don't know problem you are having, but you may want to disable all the video codecs you're not using and see if your problem goes away. Then enable the ones you have to use as you go.

[me]

Could anyone explain to me what the codecs that just appear as filenames are, those that don't say what codecs they are, but are just filenames?