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I currently have the <snipped> Codec Pack installed, and have been using the <snipped>codec pack for a few years now.. whats so bad about it except i might not need a few of the codecs?

You say it adds 1330 keys to the registry and 805 values... im presuming thats bad.. but i carnt say its slowed my pc down so does it really matter? if some one could explain :)

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I currently have the <snipped> Codec Pack installed, and have been using the <snipped> codec pack for a few years now.. whats so bad about it except i might not need a few of the codecs?

You say it adds 1330 keys to the registry and 805 values... im presuming thats bad.. but i carnt say its slowed my pc down so does it really matter? if some one could explain :)

I'd like to know that too.

I also use the <snipped> codec pack, and I don't see any problem with that, because when you're installing it, it's asking you exactly what codec you wish to install.

So if I choose to only install Media Player Classic, ffdshow and DirectVobSub, it should be the same as installing them separately, right?

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I totally disagree. I am all for codec packs. Installs 99.99% of all the codecs you will ever need (for decoding and encoding purposes) and you will always see the video file regardless if you use WMP/Winamp/VLC/Media Player Classic etc. I personally use <snipped> pack

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i also dont see the problem with coodec packs as long as they dont install loads of unneeded stuff and are easy to remove. i noticed that the first post list MPUI as a mplayer frontend, maybe the poster could also add SMPlayer it seems to have a few intresting features that were not in the last build of MPUI i tried.

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has anybody tried kmplayer and is it any decent compared to vlc (as in performace wise, memory etc). Cause the only thing I dislike about VLC is their inability to play Real Media files.

KMPlayer is quite an excellent player, it's built using elements from several open-source projects, such as Gabest, FFDShow, FFMpeg, Mplayer, etc... But it only has RealMedia splitters, not RealMedia codecs. The only legal alternatives to RealPlayer that I know of are: JetAudio 7 Basic (they apparently license the codecs from RealNetwroks), and the console-based Mplayer, for which there are several GUI's, like MPUI, SMPlayer, RulesPlayer. A good Mplayer package that plays everything, including RealMedia streams, can be found here: http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

FFDShow might play RealMedia files from your hard drive but not streams:

http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

I believe VLC does offer limited support for some RealMedia formats including streams.

Edited by Gus Valentine

And after experimenting for a while, i decided to go back to my good old codec pack. Why ? Because it installs just exact same stuff i install induvidually, and it automatically registers file extensions, and saves me time and work. So there is no point of rejecting all the codec packs, if you know which one installs what, like me.

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