I've heard of (and even sometimes used) video players like VLC when Windows Media Player prompts me to download "new codecs", but I've also heard people talk about codec packs like K-Lite, Shark007, ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

VOB or Video Object files stored on a DVD contain a movie's content. If codecs are missing, Microsoft Media Player, or Windows Media Player, may not be able to play stand-alone VOB files that you ...

One of my users has a JVC camcorder. It records .MOD files that are not playable by default by Media Player 9 or 11. As a test I downloaded VLC. It does not play them either. But a tip on the Internet ...