Can someone provide a safe link to the various/common codecs that are available? i just reformatted my pc and everything's back to factory conditions so there's nothing on here. thanks in advance.
Video Codecs? I use VLC Player. It's free and that thing plays everything. I have never had any problem with codecs since using it. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
If you have a torrent program, here's k-lite mega codec pack: http://www.mininova.org/get/322411 I think that's even a free program, so I hope I'm not supporting piracy. But if you have it install everything, you can even play *.rm & *.mov in any media player. Not to mention it has every codec known to man. I'd suggest telling it to install every type when prompted, because it can be buggy if you leave some off.