At 53 years old and have had computers since 1984 i,e commodore 16 i am neither afraid of or don't understand WMP, its just my personal opinion just as i don't like iexplore either.
Hey no worries, as a moderator every thread is of concern and as you will know we all learn more every day just by reading various topics e.c.t.. on a personal note I also prefer to download mkv files just because you can get some from 300MB upwards saves space on hard drive On a bad note my daughter bought wife and I a new dvd player for our anniversary it plays divx e.c.t but no mkv don't really matter one in bedroom is just normal so need to convert to dvd anyway.
Installed the one without core avc & wmp12 is able to play mkv files but have no thumbnails for mkv files. Uninstalled it restarted pc & installed the one with core avc with a serial but still no thumbnails.
Hi can you tell me what individual components are used in this pack ? nad where they can be found ? thank you
Also is there any way to add support for thumbnails with mkv MPEG2-TS because my mkv dvd rips of mpeg 2 don't show thumbs.
@chaddawkins, Thank you very much for the effort you have into this package. It's almost exactly what I was looking for. As a frequent video encoder, codec packs are something to be avoided at all costs. The minimalist nature of this particular pack is what convinced me to give it a go. Using this, I can continue to rely on ffdshow as my primary codec for streams that Windows cannot natively handle without it being overridden by something else automatically. Personally, I have no real use for this as a means to enable playback of MKVs within WMP/WMC as I use MPC:HC for everything. The main draw (besides the minimalist nature) was the thumbnail generation. I had previously been using the Divx pack for this, but I had recently discovered a caveat within my video encoding workflow that forced the Divx codec to decode video instead of ffdshow. Certain scenes were slightly (and I mean ever-so-slightly) off color. While this issue wasn't a big deal in my test sample, I didn't want to come across the one or two videos where colors were way off. Anyway, would it be asking too much if you could release a version that only does thumbnail generation? A lot of people like me get thrown off by "Codec Pack" and automatically assume that it's bad for encoding purposes. P.S. - FLV thumbnail generation was a nice little bonus. I wasn't looking for an FLV thumbnail generator, but I do occasionally work with them. Again, thanks.
I don't want to use codec packs, only to register a dll for thumbnails mkv files, if this is possible.
New Version 2.0 !!! I almost completely rewrote the codec pack using a new (open source) splitter/decoder. Better than before with miles of potential !!! Even plays Blu-Ray !!! (click on index.bdmv in BDMV folder)