Help! Most of my videos are not working...

[tynant]

I have a lot of videos and most are not working on any player...its very choppy and unwatchable. Audio is unaffected. I have a relatively new pc and all of these videos were working before I wiped my pc and reinstalled everything. I have nimo codec pack 5 and k lite codec pack + some random others I found. I have run g spot and it says I have codecs for the videos. I dont understand why I am getting playback issues if I have the codecs, and they were working before so I know its not a pc speed or mem issue. Can anyone please help me?

[olyteddy]

Try them in VLC Player (free program, contains its own codecs for most formats). Sounds like you've got too many codecs. Codec packs are seldom a good idea, just load the ones you need. If they play ok in VLC, time to get rid of those packs.

[Burster]

Take my opinion and use "Media Player Classic" that comes with XP codec Package. www.xpcodecpack.com. I think you can download it for free here: www.free-codecs.com. This media player plays almost ALL formats. You don't need Quicktime anyone, cos it plays all quicktime movies too! Can there be a better player?

[tynant]

thanks everyone! I managed to fix the problem using something called ffdshow..not sure what was wrong or why this program fixed it. Ill try the media player classic too...thanks again!

[soup]

I would start weeding out some codecs that you don't need.