Technology and ….
Recently, a friend asked me what he should install on a new PC before he takes a backup snapshot. The PC is going to be used by the whole family as a media PC in addition to other functions. I put VLC Media Player on this list of must haves.
I get this question a lot:
“I got this .mkv (or insert other format here) video file and it won’t play on my machine. It says I don’t have the right codec. What do i do?”
First let me address what a codec is. A codec is an algorithm for compress and decompressing videos. If your computer does not have the algorithm it will not be able to decompress the video and you will not be able to watch the file.
So how do you get the codecs you need? The best option is to download a codec pack. A codec pack is a group of codecs .. you guessed it.. packed together. The one I like to use is the k-lite codec pack.
K-lite codec pack