Windows 2000 / codecs

Carob

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Can anyone tell me what codecs ship with Windows 2000?

Thanks!

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I did a clean install of Windows 2000 last night (no updates, no service packs) and remembered your question and noted what codecs were available using gspot and a few sample videos I had. This is pretty much what Windows Media Player 6.4 can handle.

MPEG-1

(this is for AVI - I put FOURCC followed by codec name)
CVID Cinepak
IV31/IV32 Indeo 3
IV50 Indeo 5
MSVC/CRAM/WHAM Microsoft Video 1
MRLE Microsoft RLE

can open QuickTime files encoded with Indeo 5 or Cinepak

M261 Microsoft H.261
M263 Microsoft H.263

I420 (handled by MS H.263)

MPG4 Microsoft MPEG-4 version 1
MP42 Microsoft MPEG-4 version 2
MP43 Microsoft MPEG-4 version 3 (DirectShow-only - will not decode MP43 in AVI container, only in ASF/WMV container)

MP4S Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 version 1
I didn’t have any samples of M4S2 (Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 version 1.1) so I couldn’t check

maybe YVU9 (I checked it after I installed stuff, so I’m not sure)

There may be a couple others. I didn’t check very thoroughly.