A great solution to media support on Windows - CodecInstaller
Nikhil Dev | July 30, 2007 | 5:22 pm
There have been so many times when I had to download another music player or a video player software just because my Windows Media Player was not able to play a particular format. Unfortunately there was no way in Windows through which we can install just the media codec but not the players. I found a really good solution to this problem. This tool is called CodecInstaller and is free for download. This I found is very similar to Automatix in Linux. So how to get it working?
Just download Codec Installer from their website. Once you install it, you will be able to get a complete detail of all the codecs that are already installed on your computer in the forms of Audio and video. But the best thing about this utility is the Analyze file feature. A lot of the videos that I watch are encoded in Avi. If there are some that you are not able to play, all you need to do is analyze the file and install the missing codec.
I think this would serve the purpose for people like me who dont want to install a whole lot of player or codec packs like K-Lite Mega Codec.
