Audio and video codecs such as Windows Media Video (.wmv), Flash (.flv), MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (.mp3), DivX (.divx), DVD etc. count as few as possible . If it is WMV or AVIWindows Media PlayerAlthough ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

Is there a missing codec? If you wonder what is a codec, here’s a little explanation. The word codec comes from Encoding and Decoding. What codecs do is compress and decompress digital media files.

NOTE: Many of these VLC tricks use the same dialogs, so rather than repeat the same steps every time, I'll be doing a thorough step-by-step once and then highlighting only the differences in the ...

Let’s just rip off the Band-Aid and get the bad news out of the way: The standard version of Windows 8 won’t include Windows Media Center or the ability to play DVDs by default. Wait! Put down those ...