reinstall codecs from scratch

Snow-Munki · 18 Dec 2006 at 20:12

Ok, want to wipe all the rubbish codecs from my HTPC and start over.

Using the onboard sound to output sound via SPDIF if that makes any difference and to upscale dvd's / avi's

Just wanted to be sure can i just install FFDshow and that's it ?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

Nothing else needed ? what about nvida decoder ? avisync ? dscaler ? reclock ?

just a few i already have on my pc !

Thanks

jbloggs · 18 Dec 2006 at 20:25

Snow-Munki:

FFDShow is all you need (I believe).

Download it from the link I have supplied, as they are more recent.

Snow-Munki · 18 Dec 2006 at 20:28

thanks, do i need an audio codec to go with it ?

jbloggs · 19 Dec 2006 at 10:34

Snow-Munki wrote:

do i need an audio codec to go with it ?

No, different audio codecs are included in FFDShow, as you run the setup you will see the different audio (and video) options that can be set.

bledd · 19 Dec 2006 at 12:02

use the link jblogs gave you, the sourceforge link is badly out of date for some reason!

squiffy · 19 Dec 2006 at 12:21

FFDSHOW will do pretty much everything, I have a HTPC and rarely need to add another codec.

Since you're using SPDIF out make sure you select SPDIF for AC-3 and DTS in audio video codecs. Don't forget to use ffdshow scaling. If something doesn't work use gspot to determine what audio/video codec it uses than install that individually. I posted a few pictures of ffdshow, do a search on my username. Have pictures on the scaling options too.

Snow-Munki · 19 Dec 2006 at 15:32

thanks, and yeah noticed your pictures from a previous thread

n3vrmind · 19 Dec 2006 at 23:18

CCCP is all you need

ANDARIAL · 20 Dec 2006 at 12:37

n3vrmind said:
CCCP is all you need

seconded