codec help

[belgarion]

Hi guys

i am having problems playing some video files, some wont render and some have no sound, ( i know they may not have had sound in the first place)

this problem has mainley been since i switched to WIN7 and also mainly with FLV files, is there a way to tell which specific codec is required to play a specific file ??? does it say in the file properties for instance ??

or can someone point me in the right direction to play these files ( i cannot play any files in this thread https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/showthread.php?t=91928 )

thanks in advance

[belgarion]

P.S. i have downloaded the usual codec packs with no results

[eaze187]

First, what media player are you using?

Even if you have K-lite, some .flv files might not play with WMP, for example. From what it sounds like you are having problems with .avi files and .flv files, so what I would do is: uninstall whatever codec pack you currently have, go to K-lite and download/install the standard 32-bit pack for Win7 - also download and install the 64 bit version of k-lite (for win7 64 bit users you need both for WMP/IE.) If that works for all files in WMP but .flv, I would download a free .flv player and use that for those files (even though win7 64 is 64 bit, many programs that it runs are still 32 bit so a free player should work.)

K-lite Standard
K-lite 64-bit

Good luck

[eviltwin]

Or use VLC-Player, it's free and plays anything...

[belgarion]

Ok
thanks for the advice guys, i will try all that and see what happens