Video codecs.

[Robert]

What codecs do you have installed?

I have:

K-Lite Mega pack (latest)
Coreavc
HDTV pump

Anything better than these/should I replace them?

[Funkstar]

I don't like codec packs, the can really screw things up. You usually get things you don't seen either.

ffdshow, RealAlternative and QTAlternative are my favourites.

Not had to do anything with HD so far.

[this_is_gav]

Can't stand codec packs either.

XviD, Quicktime Alternative, Real Alternative, x264, DivX (encoding only, as their Web Player rocks and I use it on our school website over WMV) and then have VLC for anything that doesn't play with the above. It hasn't been used yet.

[directhex]

directhex@mortos:~$ dpkg -l gstreamer0.10\* | grep ^ii
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                    0.10.14-1ubuntu3 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-doc                     0.10.14-1ubuntu3 GStreamer core documentation and manuals
ii  gstreamer0.10-esd                     0.10.6-0ubuntu4  GStreamer plugin for ESD
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg                  0.10.2-2ubuntu1  FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3             0.10.5.debian-1  Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer plugin
ii  gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux       0.10.12-0ubuntu1 Fluendo GStreamer plugin for MPEG2 demuxing
ii  gstreamer0.10-gl                      0.10.5-4ubuntu1  GStreamer plugin for OpenGL output
ii  gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs                0.10.14-1ubuntu3 GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
ii  gstreamer0.10-gnonlin                 0.10.9-1         non-linear editing module for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad             0.10.5-4ubuntu1  GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse  0.10.5-1         GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set (Multiv
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base            0.10.14-1ubuntu3 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps       0.10.14-1ubuntu3 GStreamer helper programs from the "base" se
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good            0.10.6-0ubuntu4  GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly            0.10.6-0ubuntu2  GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse 0.10.6-0ubuntu1  GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set (Multi
ii  gstreamer0.10-tools                   0.10.14-1ubuntu3 Tools for use with GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-x                       0.10.14-1ubuntu3 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango

covers pretty much anything

[aidanjt]

K-Lite Codec Pack on Windows, ordinarily codec packs screws things up, but K-Lite seems to work well as long as you don't let it do fancy auto stuff like 'check/fix for broken codecs'.
With Gentoo I let portage pull in various codecs as dependencies, as well as the w32codec package.

p.s. gstreamer sucks :/

[directhex]

p.s. gstreamer sucks :/

there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's a reasonable attempt to make a directshow-style graph system on *nix

plus, you may or may not have noticed gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg on the list - which means any gstreamer app is happy playing anything supported by ffmpeg's implementation of libavcodec. which is pretty much everything ever

[[GSV]Trig]

Cccp

[mike_w]

In the spirit of directhex:

$ dpkg -l gstreamer0.10\* | grep ^ii
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa         0.10.10-4      GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg       0.10.1-7       FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs     0.10.10-4      GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.10-4      GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.4-4       GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.4-5       GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-x            0.10.10-4      GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango

ffmpeg and w32codecs handle just about everything - I've yet to find something they won't play.

[Lourdes]

Combined Community Codec Pack is all you need. It's a coec pack but a proper one without a million different things.
To that I add Quciktime and Real Alternative.

[HSK]

^ im using this one also, and outta my experience of a few different codec packs, this has been the best.

so give it a try if ur interested.