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I'm no doctor and definitely not the brain for the computer but.. This afternoon as I was trying to do video test work I tried to open the files and they wouldn't.. Not only the converted files but every video file on the computer wouldn't open.. Well that makes every video I have worthless and in fact every player not work.. So what was the deal??  I checked codecs and had to check every device.. But after a few I thought this is futile... Except for me deleting a codec pack the other day there hasn't been any... Well was that what happened?  But I have the K-Lite codec pack and it should work, right??  Yes it should but it wasn't.. So what gives??  I tried so many things and one of which was attempting to delete the K-Lite set of codecs which didn't budge.. The computer browser locked up and the computer itself froze and it was several hours of cussing and then the third attempt in SAFE mode I got that codec pack deleted..  I downloaded a codec pack from windows but I doubted that this would work, it has to do with cameras and.. Well mine should be on there, but it must not have been.. The windows movie maker still won't play my videos.. Why it worked this summer for the wedding is still a mystery.. But truth be told the videos weren't working in WMM at first, then as we got closer to August they played every now and then and then all the wedding video played which was good because I have used the AVC video converter program recently and the video turns out looking like crap.. Then the program updated today and I tried to do some video conversions and they turned out much better.. But it is strange because I set it to be converted to one file format and the program did one video that way and the rest were set to something else.. Why was this??  Turns out you have to manually set each video to the output file format.. So that cleared that up.. So what about the codecs situation?? Well after getting back on the regular setting after the restart from SAFE mode it did the same thing.. What it did was come up with that dialog box stating to go on line to figure it out.. OR  set the player for this file.. Could it be that easy??  I set the program to play these files as windows player and all of a sudden they play.. After freaking out for the afternoon they played.. Well all except for the WMM, it still won't play my video files from the computer.. I can live with that though..   I might still need the codecs pack but won't until there is a need to.. I'm still not sure what happened.. Must have been the deletion of the first codec pack.. I'da never thunk it though..

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