VideoInspector is primarily used for the purpose of loading in and gathering information about video files. This program is by KC Softwares who are well known for the popular SUMo software update monitor software. Here we’ll provide the manual way of finding your installed codecs through Windows and some automatic ways through third party software to help determine what video and audio codecs are installed on your system. A less experienced user probably couldn’t tell you if they have a certain codec installed to be able to play a file.įinding this information can be quite difficult for an average user, but there are ways to get it. If for example, you download a video from the internet, your media player has to have access to the same decoder that it was encoded in.
The term “codec” is made up of the words Coder- Decoder, and is simply a device or a piece of software that can encode or decode a piece of data, in our case audio or video data. In fact, a number of audio and video playback issues can often be caused by not having the correct codec installed on your computer, a problem with the installed codec, or even the wrong version installed. Sometimes when you try to play a video file in a player like Windows Media Player, you might receive an error that the file cannot be played, or a codec is not installed on your system.
