Check for Missing Audio and Video Codecs

Mrinmay Bhattacharjee | January 18, 2009 More

Many a times it happens that you are unable to play a particular video/audio file in your PC, as because there’s no codec installed for that particular file.

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack can do wonders, but still sometimes it refuses to play the file. Now How to Check for Missing Audio and Video Codecs?

CodecInstaller is a Windows program that detects the Audio and Video codecs installed on your system, analyzes files to understand which codecs they require and suggests you to install them.

This program can be used to analyze files: it supports avi, mpeg, wmv, wma, ogg, flac, mpc, mp3, mp4, wav, wx and will show technical data such as width/height and ratio, length, video codec, framerate, size, bitrate, total frames, quality factor and metadata such as title, album, year (if available).

I tried this software and it detects all the missing and required codecs needed to play a particular audio/video file.

You can read the full tutorial about this software here and download it from here