With a TV, video playback is a breeze: you turn on the screen, TV tuner or DVD player and it works. Unfortunately, it is one with a computer.
Indeed, there is no common format for videos that you get on the computer. Between the videos downloaded from the Internet, those from your digital camcorder and your phone, there are a multitude of formats that your computer is not necessarily given.
To play a video format, with Windows Media Player included with Windows, should have the right codec, a small program that contains information on how to play the video.
If your player refuses to play a video, is that it lacks a codec. You can easily download on the Internet, still need to know which is it.
Here are solutions for reading all videos, whatever, and without difficulty. Avi, MPEG, DivX, XviD, MP4, Flash, Mov, ra, QuickTime, Real, WMV,etc you can see everything!
Find the missing codec:
You can not play video: you certainly need the proper codec. The problem is that you do not know where you are missing. The freeware Gspot will help you and give you valuable information about the codecs used in a video.
- Download Gspot from its record in the repository.
- Unzip the downloaded archive.
- Double click the file GSpot.exe to run the software.
- In the window that opens, click the File menu and then click Open.
- Select your hard drive the video file that you can not read and then click the Open button.
- GSpot analysis then your video file. He then tells you in red codecs that are not installed, XVID here.
- All you then have to download (via Google) and install the XVID codec to be able to play this video.
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