Decent windows 7 codecs?

cokecan · 4 Nov 2009 at 09:25

ffdshow tryouts with Haali Media Splitter sorts all my video playback needs

can also be configured to upscale etc

Uther · 4 Nov 2009 at 09:25

Why don't M$ make their own codec packs for win7? Seems a bit weird to have a new O/S then have to hunt around the net for codecs.

Makhaira · 4 Nov 2009 at 12:04

Uther said:
Why don't M$ make their own codec packs for win7? Seems a bit weird to have a new O/S then have to hunt around the net for codecs.

Because the codecs aren't their products. Personally I'd just slap VLC on there and be done with it, it's been years since I worried about codecs.

Blackbadger · 4 Nov 2009 at 14:57

Aod said:
unfortunately it's been bought by some weird company who've stopped development on it.

<edit> Oh, my mistake - they've just considerably SLOWED development, with the last release being about 2 months ago, and the release before that in mid 2008...

Latest KM Player was released 2 weeks ago.
http://imgcdn.pandora.tv/pan_img/KMP/Download/kmp.exe

Yes updates are not as frequent as other players, however I've found no need for updates. It's very light and very feature rich.

Reality|Bites · 4 Nov 2009 at 15:16

I havn't had to install any codecs so far, all my divx and xvid stuff just played straight after installation completed.

hideki · 4 Nov 2009 at 15:47

shark007 codec pack for win7 does the job.

djkav · 4 Nov 2009 at 16:14

I have a problem with playing video files with all media players except WMP on Win 7.

If i watch a file full screen it becomes pixelated. With WMP it plays full screen quite nice.

Any ideas, I dont have any codec packs installed as yet.

Django x2 · 4 Nov 2009 at 16:32

Whilst I <3 Sharky, installing the codec pack on my Win7 HTPC seems to mean that the native support for .mov get stripped out. My work laptop which is x64 7 Enterprise plays .movs with no codecs installed on it what so ever, but my HTPC doesn't