Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA
I do rip DVD's myself but I always use the XviD codec. I have no idea about where an official, usable H.264 codec exists for Windows, if at all. (Do you know a definitive download location for such a codec?!) If there's no such package, it shouldn't be a surprise that you can't play H.264 video in any media player, only ones that explicitly support it, with some custom DLL of their own...  |
Theres two ways.
You can use FFdshow, it sorta is an all in one codec, but its not a codec pack. But ill admit that it's decoder isnt that great, itll do the job. FFdshow is actually integrated into VLC, thats what VLC uses to decode video.
You can also get the CoreAVC codec, but it recnetly went pay, its pretty much the best one though.
Im sure theres others that can decode h264 video, but ive never tried them, I heard quicktime installs one too but im not about to install quicktime on my system to try it.
I have had no trouble playing h264 video in MPC before..... other than the fact that my crappy old pentium 3 CPU can barely handle it if its too high bitrate/resolution XD
As for my mencoder version, this is what I got when I ran it:
MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team