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Where can you run this program? Ffdshow runs on PCs up to Windows 8. Is there a better alternative? Should you download it? Highs Supports most codecs Built-in audio and video filters Highly configurable A broad selection of playback settings. Lows Complicated user interface The latest version has bugs No documentation or help files. Vivaldi High performance with few drawbacks.

Mozilla Thunderbird Speed and reliability. Vlc has some important functions missing that I use heavily while watching movies.

LIKE stretch to be-able to remove the black bars while watching movies. I have never been able to get kodi to run right. I would use Potplayer but because its Korean they are having hacking and adware issues with that one and I been having problems with its updating system and files being corrupted or not removed when removing program so when try to install again it doesn\’t work right anymore.

Personally I believe its outsider hacking messing with it to ensure it corrupts any following use of it when uninstalling and reinstalling it. Was this reply helpful?

Yes No. Sorry this didn\’t help. Thanks for your feedback. I remember this from years ago couldn\’t remember who to look it up under. Someone else has a site set up similar to this one but its not the same. I don\’t understand the desire to \”remove black bars\”. If a video is recorded at, say and your screen is, say then there must be black bars on the side to see the video correctly. Otherwise, you have to either crop a lot of the image off the top and bottom or stretch the image side to side and make everything distorted.

Same issue for wide screen movies, except the black bars are at the top and bottom. You can, in some cases, find a pan and scan version instead of cropping or stretching. I would do neither.

Although I would prefer if all movies were shot at , I\’ll definitely watch it in it\’s original aspect ratio over cropping or stretching. And if you download a video that plays in a box on a screen, then it really wasn\’t encoded very well.

I\’d look for a better copy in those cases. Being able to play a container does not always mean being able to play the streams inside because those streams may need a particular codec installed. How video playback works on Windows and what different players do. To play a file on windows a media player will either a use a DirectShow filter that has been installed and configured to be used universally in any media player or b ignore the default registered DirectShow filter for that video type and use its own internal one.

Most media players do a but some do b. Ones that do a have the ability to play any format provided you install the correct decoding filters or codecs. Ones that do b can play everything they are designed to play out of the box but may not be able to play anything other than that.

This is why the \”which player\” question is often pointless because most windows players use DirectShow filters which means they are almost all accessing the same filters when trying to play a file. Windows Media Player 6. If you really don\’t have it you can download it from here 5kb! This is the simplest player there is but is also the purest as it relies entirely on whatever DirectShow filters and codecs that are registered for the type of video you want to play.

It is slow and sometimes hard to convince that it can play a certain file type such as, say,. A poor excuse for a media player. It is much like Windows Media Player 6. This does have some of its own in-built decoding but it is all optional. Generally as capable as Media Player Classic but with a very different user interface that some may prefer. A decent player. It can handle a large amount of filetypes without the need to install any codecs or DirectShow filters of any kind.

It\’s a pretty decent player although its seeking is a bit haphazard and an excellent choice if you don\’t want to install lots of stuff on your system. Alternative container support looks weak, though, and the interface is a matter of taste. What is also notable is the buffering options which can apparenlty help playback on older slower systems if configured correctly. The direct link to the free player download is here. Which player to use Honestly you can use any of the players listed above.

Any of the DirectShow players should be able to handle your files provided you have the right DirectShow filters and codecs installed see below. The players with in-built decoding will be able to play exactly what they say they can and that\’s all and that\’s fine : Personally I use Media Player Classic for most things and VLC for times where I want to quickly try a different decoding method. One of the common misconceptions is that when Windows Media Player searches for a codec online and doesn\’t find one it must mean that there is something wrong with the file.

In reality, it only searches for Microsoft codecs – if the file requires a codec that isn\’t affiliated with microsoft then it will say there is no codec available. You should ignore this and continue reading this page. Codec packs installers which contain a veritable swiss army knife of codecs are great in theory but terrible in practice for many reasons.

You do not know exactly what you have installed and what has been configured to play what. They are often very hard to uninstall. Some codec packs are famously difficult to completely remove from your system. If something goes wrong you will not know exactly what part has gone wrong because it could be a number of things.

This means you do not know what to fix nor what name to scream and curse out loud when trying to fix it. They generally contain far more codecs than you actually need. Less is more. So there you have it. No offense to those who dilligently work to put codec packs together but you can\’t deny that they can be more trouble than they are worth.

It\’s best to just install things individually to your needs. One easy way is to get a player that has in-built decoding of these formats. Download and use the VLC media player. The other way to play everything is to install all the codecs, container filters and so on so they work in the media player of your choice. However, if you really really want a sensible list of things to install to cover most stuff then here it is.

The things that will help decode the most files are prioritised from top to bottom. It\’s good and can also decode a lot of audio things too. Download and install Media Player Classic to use as your media player. It\’s decent. Download and install the Windows Media Video codecs. Download quicktime and realplayer and install them very carefully or look into Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative. Once you have qt and real installed you can play.

This will give you mp4 splitting for mp4 playback with FFDShow. Download and install the ogg media filters for ogm files. Download and install the Matroska lite package for mkv files. That is basically it. If there\’s anything more problematic, keep on reading.

Knowing what type of file you have Although sometimes the file type you have may be misleading, generally you can tell what you need to do just by knowing the extension of the file such as.

However, if you are new to Windows and haven\’t customised your OS then you may not be able to actually see the file type because, by default, windows hides known file extensions.

This is a useless feature that you should turn off. In the View tab look for and deselect the option that says \”Hide file extensions for known file types\”.

Now you can see all your file extensions just fine and rename them if you need to for some reason. Sometimes filetypes are wrong. Not often, but it happens. AVIcodec is a video file identifier and should tell you what it really is. I have a. I have a file and I\’ve no freakin\’ clue what it is! If you don\’t have the right codecs installed then you are screwed. You have the following options.

Option 1 – get a player that has in-built decoding.

 
 

 

Setting up Codecs using FFDShow – Windows Media Center – Emby Community

 
And if you download a video that plays in a box on a screen, then it really wasn\’t playre very well. I-honestly-don\’t-know-what files Try opening the file with the ffdshow windows media player download AVIcodec – it should tell you a if it thinks it\’s a video file or not and hopefully b what codec it thinks you need to install. Less is more. Download and use the VLC media player.