Check Installed Audio and Video Codecs On Your Computer

Date March 9, 2018 Author Catherine Category DVD Tips

When we play the video and audio files, we often meet these trouble: Sometimes when you try to play a video file in a media player, you might receive an error that the file cannot be played, or a codec is not installed on your system. In fact, a number of audio and video playback issues can often be caused by not having the correct codec installed on your computer, a problem with the installed codec, or even the wrong version installed. How to check the audio and video codec on PC? In this post, we tell you 3 ways to do.

Way 1. Check the Audio and Video Codec with  Sherlock

This software will give you some useful information about your computer’s installed codecs. You can easily see information about the codec, it’s associated driver file, version, date and description. When you run The Codec Detective it will first scan for installed codecs and list in a window any that appear to have problems. When you get to the main interface these “broken” codecs will be displayed in red.

You can easily switch between audio and video codecs by selecting from the drop down in the top left of the window. There is also an option to export the data about all the installed codecs to a text file which is handy if information about what’s installed needs to be sent to somebody to troubleshoot or determine if the correct files are installed.

Way 2. Check the Audio and Video Codec with Nirsoft InstalledCodec

Nirsoft InstalledCodec is another excellent software which can detect the video and audio codec. You not only can find the the audio and video codecs present on the system, it can also display the DirectShow filters, and a valuable function for users of a 64-bit Windows is the ability to display the relevant 64-bit codecs and filters. 

Each entry has a lot of information displayed on its line including names, descriptions, locations, sizes and also the merit of the codec, which is the priority at which each codec is given over other compatible codecs for a particular format. InstalledCodec is a portable program and works on Windows 2000 to Windows 7.

Way 3. Check the Audio and Video Codec with Windows

Another way to check the audio and video codec on PC is using the Windows. For example: Windows XP users also have a rather basic option to display the names of installed codecs by going to Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Hardware tab. Now click on either Video or Audio codecs in the window and click the Properties button.Other windows users, you can refer above way and do.

Best Way to Decide the Video and Audio Codec

You can take above way to check the video and audio codec, when you find the codec is not the right one, how to do? You need one video converter, like the Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate which can help you to adjust the video and audio codec to your desired files, you also can change the video and audio other parameters, like the video frame, video bitrate, video resolution, audio sample rate, audio channels, etc.

This software is easy to use and install, you can install it on any windows OS, even including the latest Windows 10, For mac user, you also can get the mac version and install it on your Mac, including the latest macOS High Sierra. With the use-friendly interface, you can master it quickly.

You also can convert the video to video, audio to audio easily, there are 300+ video and audio formats are here for you, you also can choose the devices, media player you want to play from the devices presets directly, like the NLE software, iPhone, iPad, Android devices, TVs and so on. More information, you can install one and have a try.

Totally, when you can’t play some videos on media player, you can check the video and audio codec with above 3 ways, then you can use the best video converter and adjust the video and audio codec oe convert the video to your media player bets supported video formats.