• If you find any buffering taking place while the video streaming, you can stop the process and perform it some time later. There may be cases where the websites shut the servers down for the maintenance, thereby causing stalls in the video streaming.
• If the problem persists the other unnecessary podcast software programs or any other software and video accelerators can be shut down. Start the program again after doing this and the problem may be solved.
• To stop buffering you can also try this simple step out. Open the Windows Media Player and select “Options” from the “Tools” menu. Now select “Performance” and then “Network Buffering” and “Buffer”.
• There appears a text box where you can enter 60 or any higher value as per your wish. This may solve the buffering problems but the only issue is that you may have to wait before the video begins to play.
• To stop buffering of online videos you need to check the connection of your internet. When the internet speed is slow the buffering is bound to occur. You can replace the Dial up internet connection with broadband or DSL services.
• Having some unnecessary windows open while playing the video may also cause buffering. So make sure all the other windows are closed to stop the buffering of videos.
• Go to control panel and find “Internet Options” and in the “General” tab select “Delete temporary internet files” and also check the box for “Delete all offline content” and click “OK”.
• You can also solve the problem by visiting the “Control Panel” and clicking the “Display” option. Move to the “Settings” tab and select “Advanced” and then the “Troubleshoot” option. Bring the hardware acceleration in a disabled state by dragging the slider to the extreme left.

Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder and Streaming Pack is the package of Elecard components for media data de-multiplexing and decoding as well as receiving streaming video and decoding it.

MPEG-2 Video Decoder a.k.a. DVD decoder, streaming components, and demultiplexer comprised in the pack are Microsoft DirectShow compatible.

DXVA support in the Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder significantly decreases CPU usage and provides substantial performance gains.
Multi CPU support provides high performance for real time transcoding tasks executed on high-end PCs.

Elecard MPEG-2 Decoder can process DVD Subpicture, Closed Captions (DVD, ATSC. DVS157, C-Cube, SCTE).
Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder is Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible. Install the pack to enable dvd video playback in multimedia players built on DirectShow (e.g., Windows Media Player).

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Features of Arithyuv 1.1.1 :

- It only supports YUY2 colorspace.
- Codec settings can be changed during compression.
- Speed consideration: Huffyuv is becoming too fast. I mean that there are many CPU cycles that could be used to improve compression. However, the Lagarith codec is a little too slow for my PC. Arithyuv only uses median prediction (huffyuv implementation) and an assembly-optimized implementation of arithmetic coding.
- Compression consideration: Compression is better than Huffyuv, even when adaptive huffman tables are used (it’s a ffdshow improvement). For interlaced sources, Arithyuv even give better results than Lagarith since Lagarith lacks the ability to treat the contents as interlaced video. However, Lagarith compression is generally better for progressive frames.
- Size consideration: Compression isn’t the only factor to reduce the file size. The possibility to change settings during the capture allows you to optimize them without knowing in advance the format of the video. For example, cropping to remove black borders is generally unsafe. Anyway, not all capture applications allows you to crop the video. Also, discarding frames temporarily can be less problematic than stopping and restarting the capture.

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BergWave is a wavelet based video de/en-coding solution.

The BergWave package currently consists of three parts :

- libbw: the main video de-/encoding library
- test: a simple example programm
- vfw: video for windows interface

BergWave is working in yv12 colorspace. Color conversion functions where XviD taken from the XviD project, a open source MPEG 4 video codec (www.xvid.org).
At the moment BergWave doesn’t support delta frames, but that’s on the doto list. To compress the yv12 image BergWave uses 5,3 wavelet transform with run length encoding.

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Canopus DV Codec helps you to play and import DV videos with any tool.

DO NOT INSTALL this CODEC on a machine with a DV Rex M1, DV Raptor, EZDV, RexFX, or Xplode!

This free software CODEC will allow machines without DV Rex M1, DV Raptor, or RexFX cards to play Canopus DV CODEC AVI files. Playback performance depends on CPU speed.

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Aud-X has been engineered as 5.1 channel surround sound CODEC, and is dedicated for the use with MPEG4 (Xvid/Divx) based movies. It is of course also possible to compress 5.1 music with Aud-X.

Aud-X consists of 3 independent parts:
- Aud-X executable file encoder/decoder
- Aud-X DirectShow decoder filter
- Aud-X ACM encoder (for VirtualDubMod and other Audio Compression Manager compatible software).

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Speex is an Open Source/Free Software patent-free audio compression format designed for speech. The Speex Project aims to lower the barrier of entry for voice applications by providing a free alternative to expensive proprietary speech codecs.

Moreover, Speex is well-adapted to Internet applications and provides useful features that are not present in most other codecs.

Speex is based on CELP and is designed to compress voice at bitrates ranging from 2 to 44 kbps. Some of Speex features include:

- Narrowband (8 kHz), wideband (16 kHz), and ultra-wideband (32 kHz) compression in the same bitstream
- Intensity stereo encoding
- Packet loss concealment
- Variable bitrate operation (VBR)
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD)
- Discontinuous Transmission (DTX)
- In-progress fixed-point port.

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If you need to play a video that has been created with the Alaris Web Camera software or any other software that uses the VGPixel codec, this is the answer.

• FOURCC used by this codec: VGPX

How to install Alaris VGPixel codec :

- Uncompress the files from “Alaris.zip” archive, right-click on the “alaris.inf” file and select Install.
- You may encounter a prompt saying: “The software you are installing for this hardware… has not passed Windows Logo testing…”; click on the Continue Anyway button.

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Hotwire Codec Bundle is targeted to users that wish to play encoded media (decoder). It does not include video encoders used to compress video files.

Features of Hotwire Codec Bundle 1.0 :

• Small and Lightweight – Only includes the major codecs that are most frequently used.
• Contains the following codecs:
- DivX 5.2.1 (Supports DivX 3,4 and 5 encoded avi video)
- XviD Decoder 1.0-Beta3 (Supports XviD encoded avi video)
- Elecard MPEG2 Demultiplexer (Required for MPEG2 playback)
- Ligos MPEG Video Decoder (Supports MPEG 1 and 2 video)
- Ogg Directshow Decoder (Supports Ogg Vorbis audio)
- CD Audio Reader Filter (Supports digital playback of audio CDs – Win 2K, XP only)
- DivX antifreeze (Helps prevent avi videos from freezing)

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HelDecPack is a light codecpack enabling its user to play the most common (and some uncommon) types of multimedia files. By means of the included filters you will be able to see DivX, XviD and other kinds of MPEG4 video variants.

An MPEG2 decoder is also included allowing you to play back DVD’s (to some extent) and SVCD’s. In addition the container formats Matroska and Ogg are supported, formats that are likely to replace the well known format Avi sometime in the future Audio is supported too as a Ogg Vorbis, AC3 and DTS decoder are included.

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