Problem with Media Player Codec Pack

[brassplyer]

After finding that Windows Media Player wouldn't play DVD's. I saw a recommendation for this codec pack

http://www.4shared.com/file/8XicyvFg/mediaplayercodecpackv413setup.html

After installing it, I found that playing various .avi and mpeg files, the color is smeared/offset from the image. Anyone know anything about this? Know of a fix or any codec packs that you think would work better? With the caveat of course that I don't want to bork the functionality of other video apps.

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

Maybe is ffdshow or lavfilters enough.

But I just mpchc and vlc for dvd playback.

[brassplyer]

I uninstalled the Media Player Codec Pack and now get no sound on mpeg-2's. .wav, .avi .mp3 play fine. Media Player Classic will play mpeg-2 files, so does the old WMP6 that's bundled. But not WMP10 or 11.

I tried installing this mpeg-2 codec pack from windows - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...layer/plug-ins but get an odd result. I uninstalled WMP10 and installed 11 but it tells me the codec isn't compatible with WMP10. I hit clear and it tells me the codec pack is successfully installed. Not sure that it is.

Anyway, any suggestion how to get WMP playing mpeg-2 files again? How would I re-install the default codecs from the windows install disc?

Thanks

[brassplyer]

Maybe is ffdshow or lavfilters enough.

But I just mpchc and vlc for dvd playback.

Thanks. Installed the lavfilters and now I do get mpeg-2 sound and dvd playback, though it doesn't look as good as it did before - get "jaggies", where before the image looked smooth. Not sure if it's a configuration issue with WMP11 or something else.