Thread Subject: how to find the video codecs installed on ones computer?

Hello
Is there a way to find out the video codecs installed in
ones computer and then have them listed in the listbox?
Regards
Vihang

Vihang,

Do you mean in MATLAB or just in general. Also are you using Windows or
another platform? If you are looking for the codecs on your machine in
Windows you can find them using Windows Media Player:

1) Launch Windows Media Player
2) Click on the Help Menu and select "About Windows Media Player"
3) When the About Box pops up click on the "Technical Support
Information" Link
4) A web browser should pop up with a list of information. There is a
section on this which lists the video codecs installed on your machine.

-Nick



Vihang Patil wrote:
> Hello
> Is there a way to find out the video codecs installed in
> ones computer and then have them listed in the listbox?
> Regards
> Vihang

Nick Haddad <nhaddad@mathworks.com> wrote in message
<47693953.8000108@mathworks.com>...
> Vihang,
>
> Do you mean in MATLAB or just in general. Also are you
using Windows or
> another platform? If you are looking for the codecs on
your machine in
> Windows you can find them using Windows Media Player:
>
> 1) Launch Windows Media Player
> 2) Click on the Help Menu and select "About Windows
Media Player"
> 3) When the About Box pops up click on the "Technical
Support
> Information" Link
> 4) A web browser should pop up with a list of
information. There is a
> section on this which lists the video codecs installed
on your machine.
>
> -Nick

Hello Nick
I want to see the video codec's through Matlab. I can
pretty much see the video codecs through Sherlock (link
found here http://www.free-
codecs.com/download/Sherlock_The_Codec_Detective.htm), but
I want to populate them in my guis's listbox .
I dont see any command for that in Matlab. I am using
windows XP as my OS. Also, I have observed that most
codecs found on my computer through Sherlock are not
compatible if I use them in movie2avi command.
Regards
Vihang