After the AMVApp...

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:07 am

After the installation of the App... What should I put on my pc? I put TMPGenc and VirtualDubMod. If I install the Codec DivX can born any incovenience? Well, other than AMVapp and the utilities in the guide is the question..

CHAMELEON_D_H · Post by **CHAMELEON_D_H** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:24 am

a video editing program... maybe add an image editor for those spechial times... a codec pack is allways nice and handy ( http://www.free-codecs.com ) ... some audio converting / editing programs if u need any.... cant think of anything else....

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:44 pm

Thanks

But install codecs pack would not go in conflict or give me some problems with the AMVApp that actually install some codecs himselfs?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:54 pm

NEVER Install codec packs! I don't know how many times this has to be stated, but people never listen

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:22 pm

T H A N K S.

So I am saved from installing a pack of 8 megs...

CHAMELEON_D_H · Post by **CHAMELEON_D_H** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:15 am

i have k-lite codec full and amvapp together and everything works fine....

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 10:53 am

CHAMELEON_D_H wrote:i have k-lite codec full and amvapp together and everything works fine....

. however, most people are not Codec Literate these days.
An understand of which Codecs are used for what purpose,
for Audio,
for Video Capturing,
for Video Cleaning and Editing,
for Final Processing, can greatly affect the AMV's look and overall size.
. The Guides are trying to make people understand that "less is better" for
the Video Quality touch-ups.. Any time someone has made a CODEC PAK
and something goes wrong - the question that needs to be asked
is, "Who was that Package designed for?" . Most of the time
we just can't answer that question - because we `just
don't know!
. We say Xvid for Final Production because we know what it can do.
. We say Huffy2 for Editing.
. We sorta like LAME for Audio.
- - these three are very simple to understand and help people with.

. there's nothing worse than being a newbe and getting lost in a Codec Pak.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:42 am

Since I'm lazy, here's a quote someone said on doom9 forums:

Codec packs are practically useless with ffdshow. There is very little ffdshow can't decode. Further it has nice configs for everything and a great uninstaller. It is not known to mess anything up in general and uses low ammounts of CPU most times. Ffdshow is based off ffmpeg which is the encoder/decoder engine for videolan and mplayer. It handles all major MPEG 4 codecs and most other common codecs as well.

The problem with codec packs is that they are often out of date even overwriting newer files already on your PC. They have also been known to install hardware dependant filters that will thurroughly mess up playback on a system without said hardware. To boot some of the codecs they install get installed wrong or are not very good causing further playback issues. Codec packs were ok ideas for people who knew what they were dooing back in the day. But unfortunatly most people had no idea what they were doing and just installed everything and in the process trashed their system. Hence codec packs are bad. And due to ffdshow almost irrelevant these days.