{"id":525,"date":"2009-08-26T22:43:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T02:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/?page_id=525"},"modified":"2009-08-26T23:07:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T03:07:40","slug":"installing-required-codecsmedia-players","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/?page_id=525","title":{"rendered":"Installing required Codecs\/Media Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Codecs are basically sets of software instructions that tell your media player how to decode and play a particular type of file, depending on the codec that was used to create it.<\/p>\n<p>Most web-distributed video files are compressed with one of many common codecs (wmv, divx, xvid, h.264, mov, etc).<\/p>\n<p>In the event that your computer does not yet have these codecs installed, you simply need to install them.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend installing a software package containing all common codecs, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/ffdshow\/\">ffdshow codec pack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Installation is very easy, just follow the onscreen steps after downloading and running the codec pack installation file.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose not to use your computer&#8217;s default media player, you can also install a third party media playing application, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\">VLC media player<\/a> (also free).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codecs are basically sets of software instructions that tell your media player how to decode and play a particular type of file, depending on the codec that was used to create it. Most web-distributed video files are compressed with one of many common codecs (wmv, divx, xvid, h.264, mov, etc). In the event that your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-525","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525\/revisions\/532"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinsvids.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}