Change the video codec or decoder WMP uses ?

[WBFAir]

Hello all

Forgive me if this is a common topic or is well known here, (I did try a search on the subject but got to many responses).

I've been having a problem with the video playback of certain videos in WMP and from the recommnedation of a post I made a while back here used GSpot to find out that it is a codec issue.

The one in particular is MPEG2 which is using DScaler MPEG2 Video decoder but in using GSpots test option I found several other codec's or decoders that work fine.

So my question is, how can I switch WMP to use one of those codec or decoder so I can get my proper playback again.

Preferable I was hoping there might be a program (hopefully simple one) that would let me see and test the codec and then designate it as the default one to use.

Thanks.

[Safesurfer]

You would need to change the "Merit" of a particular codec to make it the default one used. You could try one of these tools at https://www.videohelp.com/tools?toolsearch=merit

P.S. This may help explain, http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/pages/40395.aspx

[WBFAir]

Thanks Safesurfer, that did the trick, took a bit of figuring out and a reboot but I was able to set the Moonlight codec to 0x8 and bounced the DScaler down to 0x6 and it fixed it , thanks a bunch!