[Elvandil]

Originally Posted by Rivera42

So if I found codecs in, say, VLC Player's folder, those might work?

Codecs should work with any player, but don't always. Don't do anything en masse. Try one at a time if you want.

[DarqueMist]

Originally Posted by Elvandil

Haven't heard that. Any links?

Ffdshow has been around so long that I think the makers of Oblivion should fix that problem.

Here's one in the Oblivion FAQ (scroll down to ""FF" icons in the system tray"). I think I read somewhere that ffdshow (not Bethesda) has added Oblivion to it's ignore list in a recent release but I can't find where I read that so can't be 100% sure.

[Rivera42]

I looked in VLC's plugins folder. There's dozens of "lib" this and ".dll" that, including some with filenames that sound vaguely like codecs, but for the most part it's incomprehensible to me.

[Elvandil]

Yes, VLC also has a Linux version and those files resemble Linux libraries. If not obvious, better just leave them. Find alternatives that can be installed for the system.

[Rivera42]

So if I have followed the links provided here, and by codecinstaller and microsoft, and obtained xvid, ffdshow and the directx9 setup file, it should be reasonably safe to install these...right?

The ffdshow install offers a number of options, but I went with very minimal checking of checkboxes because I don't want everyone trying to decode everything, I think that would cause pandemonium.
Am I supposed to not associate filetypes and let the machine sort it out? This alphabet soup is vexing me.

[Rivera42]

Problem! I installed the xvid codec, ffdshow codec and an application called DVD Flick, and now Windows won't read CD's. I tried with WMP 11 and VLC, neither one worked. I also tried to use both a CD-RW and a DVD-RW .iso burn of my Windows CD - neither one would autorun but I was able to use the DVD-RW version from Windows Explorer. Regular DVD's don't seem to be affected; I tested one with VLC and it worked fine.

How do I fix this?

[Rivera42]

I used the included uninstallers to remove the xvid and ffdshow codecs. I have left DVD Flick installed fttb.

I started a new thread for this issue.
http://forums.techguy.org/multimedia...ml#post5851816