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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 10:15 AM
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I'v jst downloaded the 1st 4 episodes of lost series 3 and they aint working, any ideas aout these codecs cause i'm sick of dowloading things to be greated with no picture but sound
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 10:37 AM
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Have a look on Google for a program called AVICodec......download/install that, then open the media-file in it; it'll tell you which audio/video codecs you need to play it, and give you a link to download them from.
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 10:41 AM
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i use VLC multedia player and it plays anything has all the codecs built in .
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 11:24 AM
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thats cos the first 4 lost are audio only mate, there was no picture, originally intended for radio


























xvid codec
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 11:26 AM
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i'm dowloading xvid decoder now, hopefully that will sort it right out, if nt the laptop is getting headbutted
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 12:40 PM
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use Videolan

http://www.videolan.org/

and/or download ffdshow from so you can watch it through media player etc

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/f...2.exe?download
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 12:41 PM
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This is what I use.

http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/...player-updated

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 01:23 PM
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Media player 11 Beta.
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