Irrelevant Codecs on System ?

[PowerFalcon]

Below are the Audio and Videos codecs installed on my machine, are there any in the list that are irrelevant, that I can remove from my system that may have no use when compressing or decompressing, instead just sitting there hopelessly ?

Audio Codecs

ACM Microsoft IMA ADPCM CODEC 0011 imaadp32.acm 6.1.7600.16385
ACM Microsoft CCITT G.711 A-Law and u-Law CODEC 0007 msg711.acm 6.1.7600.16385
ACM Microsoft GSM 6.10 Audio CODEC 0031 msgsm32.acm 6.1.7600.16385
ACM Microsoft ADPCM CODEC 0002 msadp32.acm 6.1.7600.16385
ACM Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (decode only) 0055 l3codeca.acm 1.9.0.401
ACM Microsoft PCM Converter 0001
DMO WMAudio Decoder DMO 0160, 0161, 0162, 0163 WMADMOD.DLL 6.1.7601.17514
DMO WMAPro over S/PDIF DMO 0162 WMADMOD.DLL 6.1.7601.17514
DMO WMSpeech Decoder DMO 000A, 000B WMSPDMOD.DLL 6.1.7601.17514
DMO MP3 Decoder DMO 0055 mp3dmod.dll 6.1.7600.16385

Video Codecs

Type Name Format Binary Version
ICM Microsoft RLE MRLE msrle32.dll 6.1.7601.17514
ICM Microsoft Video 1 MSVC msvidc32.dll 6.1.7601.17514
ICM Microsoft YUV UYVY msyuv.dll 6.1.7601.17514
ICM Intel IYUV codec IYUV iyuv_32.dll 6.1.7601.17514
ICM Toshiba YUV Codec Y411 tsbyuv.dll 6.1.7601.17514
ICM Cinepak Codec by Radius cvid iccvid.dll 1.10.0.13
ICM TechSmith Screen Capture Codec tscc tsccvid.dll 2.0.6.0
DMO Mpeg4s Decoder DMO mp4s, MP4S, m4s2, M4S2, MP4V, mp4v, XVID, xvid, DIVX, DX50 mp4sdecd.dll 6.1.7600.16385
DMO WMV Screen decoder DMO MSS1, MSS2 wmvsdecd.dll 6.1.7601.17514
DMO WMVideo Decoder DMO WMV1, WMV2, WMV3, WMVA, WVC1, WMVP, WVP2 wmvdecod.dll 6.1.7601.17514
DMO Mpeg43 Decoder DMO mp43, MP43 mp43decd.dll 6.1.7600.16385
DMO Mpeg4 Decoder DMO MPG4, mpg4, mp42, MP42 mpg4decd.dll 6.1.7600.16385

[Cornucopia]

Only you can be the judge of that.

Here's how I would look at it to see if it's "irrelevant":
1. Is it part of a stock Windows install (whether relevant or not)? If so, leave it alone!
2. Is it commonly used? If so, leave it alone.
3. Is it easy and painless to uninstall?

Using that as your criteria, I'm guessing you don't have ANY candidates on the audio side, and maybe only "Toshiba YUV" and/or "Techsmith Screen Capture" on the video side.

Now comes the last criteria:
4. Is your current decoding+playback being hampered or degraded? If not, LEAVE THINGS ALONE.

Only if you got a NO, NO, YES, and YES, would I even consider trying to change your setup.

Scott

[PowerFalcon]

I hear you.

I'll remove Toshiba YUV and Techsmith Screen Capture

[PowerFalcon]

I want to remove two codecs, I can't. Windows only displays three codecs installed within Device Manager > Sound, video and game controllers, the codecs I want to remove are listed in any program that writes to a video or audio file.

I downloaded AnalogX DXMan to remove specifically remove the video codecs I want to remove. I found that I have over 30 types of DLL codecs files ranging from DV splitters to MPEG codecs, I know I can't go in and choose any to remove because I don't know what there associated with. Is there anything that can help with this as this problem didn't help much.

[Cornucopia]

Stop messing with that stuff if you don't really know what you're doing (which you don't seem to)! You'll do more harm than good.

Scott

[PowerFalcon]

I want to remove irrelevant codecs, or dll files that are on my system. What is the so called complicated steps that you would do ?

[Noahtuck]

A good rule of thumb is....

IF IT'S NOT BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!!!!!!

Codecs take up VERY minimal space and if you are not having any issues, crashes or conflicts....
Then why do you care ?

[PowerFalcon]

I'll let it be.