Tag: playing_audio

A Little Firefox Media

June 15, 2007 by Jason

A lot of sites these days require you to use the Media Player program for playing audio and video content that is actually embedded on the site. Now, if a user is using Explorer, this works flawlessly, most of the time. However, the real problem arises when accessing that kind of content on a non- browser. You know, like the ever popular Mozilla , for instance.

Standard Media Player plug-in files are included with most of the operating systems and they are usually automatically detected by the browser. However, in Vista and at times on some of the other systems, the files are missing. This means that if you access any sites that have embedded multimedia content, you will receive an error that tells you it’s a case of an invalid or missing plug-in. You will then be instructed to reinstall Media Player, which still doesn’t solve your problem. Read More»

Install K-Lite Codec Pack To Solve Video Playback Problems

April 22, 2007 by Jason

Sometimes playing videos on your PC isn’t easy, particularly when they have been downloaded off the . This is normally because your PC doesn’t have the necessary installed to play the video file in question. and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats.

The quickest way to ensure that your PC can play all video files is to install the K-Lite Codec Pack. The K-Lite Code Pack is a collection of almost every codec under the sun, that will allow you to play all your video and audio files. Read More»