Codec - I've XviD, need something to play X264?

[tigerb]

OK, I uninstall my K-Lite Codec Pack and re-install Windows/XP default codec and also installed XviD/Real Alternative/Quicktime Alternative and Media Player Classic...and 99% of all my audio/video files are fine except a few avi files in x264 I couldn't play and upon researching here, ffdshow or VLC will do the trick. I already have WMP 10 and MPC players, do I need to install another player/VLC or ffdshow together with XviD would be a better combinations/no conflicts?

Thanks.

[jagabo]

ffdshow is a collection of codecs. Once you install it and enable h.264 decoding almost any media player will work. MPC and WMP definitely.

VLC has an h.264 decoder built it so it doesn't need an external codec.

[celtic_druid]

Not sure I would call ffdshow a collection of codecs. It provides a directshow (also VfW) interface for various libraries. Most of the decoding and encoding is done by libavcodec though.

It should enable decoding in any directshow based player/app.

[tigerb]

Well, uninstall XviD and installed ffdshow (ffdshow_rev1082_20070331_sse_xxl.exe) and I got every video files to play . Nero burning ROM also comes with some codecs and basically ffdshow + Nero burning ROM = play all video files (at least for me), yes even all those ISO files in MPEG-2!, however it's strange that somehow only after the installation of Nero burning ROM that I could play all those ISO files in MPEG-2

For newbies like myself......if you don't have any media files in X/H264, XviD is good/sufficient, but if you have X/H264 media files ffdshow is great.

Regards.