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| Newstech |
 Posted: Oct 8 2002, 11:28 PM |
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My codec lists have gotten pretty bloated. Among them are 5 versions of Indeo, dating back to v. 1, and 3 Microsoft MPEG-4's. Can I delete any of these, or should I keep everything because files might still show up using any of them?
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Oct 9 2002, 05:08 AM |
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My rule: one can never have too many codecs. (Keep everything) 
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| ere109 |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 11:51 PM |
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 I beg to differ.
I will admit that I have, at times, used "illegal" codecs in my search for the perfect encoding scheme. Those may have been the culprits, but I came to realize after a while that many codecs were conflicting and ultimately forced me to format and reinstall my OS about a year ago. Since then I've gone for minimalism. I have DivX Pro 5.02 and Radium MP3. I encode all of my files in that standard and know that they'll be compatible when I want to watch them next week or next year.
I will admit that a problem can arise, though, when a movie encoded in some rogue codec crosses my path. I've got one film right now with no audio. That's a bummer, and also the reason why I actually logged onto this site.
Hope you don't mind me rambling.
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Oct 20 2002, 03:40 AM |
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ere109, welcome to the forums! 
You may be right about codecs conflicting with each other (remember Angel Potion?), so I'll rephrase my previous post: Keep every codec, unless it's causing you problems.
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