How to find what codec is needed

[himshah]

I tried to play a movie on my Notebook with Windows Media Player. I get message that WMP may support the file type or Codec used to compress the file. It is an avi file that I downloaded and I believe it has Divix compression. The problem is that WMP dose not give message which codec needed to run file. There may be tool out there that help determine which codec I need. Let me know.

Also, is there a tool other then CSS region free from DVDIDLE to remove region code from video file.

Thanks for your help

[Baldrick]

gspot.

anydvd,dvd43.

[lordsmurf]

And if GSPOT fails, try one of the others, like MEDIAINFO.

[BruceSD]

You could try installing the K-Lite Codec Pack, which will probably come with a codec for the format. If you are really desparate to play the video and you can't find a codec, try playing it in MPlayer (the MPUI distro) for Windows, which uses its own codecs built-in.

[lordsmurf]

NO! Do not use a codec pack. That almost always messes up a computer system. You may as well voluntarily give it a virus or drag a magnet across the hard drives.

[himshah]

Following is the informaiton with Media Info about - I don't get it why MCP is not recognizing.

General #0

Format : MPEG-2
Family : MPEG-2
File size : 2.61 GiB
PlayTime : 2h 44mn

Video #0
Codec : MPEG-2 Video
PlayTime : 2h 44mn
Bit rate mode : VBR
Width : 720
Height : 480
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Standard : NTSC
Delay : 45000

Audio #0
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 2
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16
Delay : 45000
Video0 delay : 0