9 years later and this video is still relevant and helpful

Audio file won't play? VLC. Can't watch the DVD you just torrented (not that you would do that)? VLC. I've told people about that since high school and they think I'm a tech guru. Nope. Just a guy with Google. ...So maybe I am a tech guru.

4:00 Hmmm... Are you sure that it isn't going to install Stalin on my comouter?

Linus, you are seriously the only person worth listening to on technology information. seriously you 're light years ahead of, and beyond the rest of the people that are honestly giving their all, but just don't stack up.

The typography in the recent videos has improved soooo much! I appreciate that!

Great job! I needed to find a way to describe this to some "higher ups" and couldn't find a way without getting too complicated and technical. This was super helpful.

10 minutes HD video 60 GB? i think it would be even more, once i made an after effect composition, it was 15 second long and it was 4 gb ... my pc couldn't even play it back smoothly

and that saved my school presentation thanks linus :)

9 years later and still best explanation on youtube

Dang, Linus, you've been doing this a long time. Excellent explanation. I'd say keep up the great work, but, no need for that. That's just what you do, the way you role!

Very complicated subject to learn, and very interesting video tutorial to watch. Thank you a lot!

Thanks for the compressed, low latency explanation video. ♥️

+1 for flawless transition from content to advertising.

Nice, simple, and informative video!

Wow nicely done Linus! Love TechQuicke and would love to see more content from it!

Very helpful for my College assignment, ty!

The video helped a lot with my vocational school exam. Thank you so much!

Props Linus, your first ad that is actually related with the video content!

After many years i finally got my answer... thanks dude.

always preferred Klite for my all in one codec needs. Updates way more often then CCCP does and contains the same stuff.

What are the differences between different audio connections? optical vs analog vs hdmi etc. I am always very confused about the tradeoffs and the medium that offers the best quality.

The graphics in this video are really good. Linus Media is stepping up the skill level!

Needs more JPEG.

Codecs and containers are easily confused, for example .mp4 is usually associated with lossy video, but can also contain lossy AAC files as well as lossless compressed music files in the ALAC format: which is why it's usually changed to m4a.

Linus do you have my Google Search History????? Your videos lately are eerily correlated to my Google searches.

Great video, I really like this channel! :-)

heres a question: what defines quality? what IS quality? just more pixels? how come a compressed video (500MB) is 1080p but an uncompressed (60GB) is also 1080p but with more quality? what IS that additonal quality?? ty!

4:10 One of the better sponsor segues that they've done on Techquickie.

I tried hotspot shield it brought my connection down to 10Mbps I us usually have 30-35Mbps! Good video!

I use K-Lite Codec Pack and its MPC-HC. Because I am used to MPC-HC hotkeys which are great, can't live without them

Loved It linus! Now I can show this to my wife when a certain file(her movie or show) won't stream or play on her N7

Awesome explanation. Thanks!

You did a great job man!

Thank you very much of explaining this. Got a lot of things in mind.

'if all of this is still pretty confusing' i knew what codec was before, i just watched this video because i'm subscribed to it xD But, it's a very good explaination x

A great Informative Video!

I recommend that service that is sponsoring this channel. It's a good VPN service if you have sites blocked by the network at school, college or at work.* *depends on network restrictions over time. I remember I could access Facebook at high school.

A few questions for future vids. You mentioned that different codecs are better for different situations. Could you elaborate on that? Also, a very interesting problem I wanted to talk about. A lot of players (VLC included) offer slower playback options, but their options only read their media in 24fps. When using my GoPro at, say, 120fps, this is really frustrating. Is there some way to get a media player to play in slo-mo using the full 120fps data? Everything I've tried (WMP, VLC, HP Video, etc) can't seem to do it. Thanks!

Quickie episode suggestion. Mice sensor types and dpi. I was recently wondering about the dpi mostly. At around 4k dpi that most gamer mice offer these days, 1cm of movement of the mouse gives you like 2000px movement of the cursor on the screen. That makes it impossible to operate so.... why go that high with the dpi? Is this just for the marketing?

Great Sponsor transition

VLC FTW!

At least this video was not just an advertisement for Cooler Master...

Linus can you give us a rundown on how the different color switches on keyboards work?

waited 4 minutes, hoping you would recommend VLC &/or CCCP. forever on my essetials-download list, for clean installs ! - love the show

Hi all. I'm confused about codecs. I want to upload video I've used my phone to record at 4k60fps with the H.264 codec. Phone video is variable frame rate which means I have to convert it to a constant frame rate. My editor gives me good, better, best options which are H.264, DNxHR, and UT Video respectively. DNxHR and UT Video are insanely huge but uncompressed. I'm wondering if there would be any difference in quality though going from H.264 to H.264? Then when it is time what should I export to? If I understand correctly KZfaq is going to use VP9 but does my export codec have any impact on end product on KZfaq? How do I balance this out because a 30 minute video with one of the larger codecs is roughly 500gb which with a 50mbps upload(fastest I can get) it will take almost a day. So short version is, when converting a 4k60fps H.264 video from VFR to CFR does using H.264 cause more loss or do I need a better codec? Whatever codec I used for conversion, what should I use to determine export codec after editing if my intent is 4k60fps uploading to KZfaq that will use VT9?

I've uploaded large files to KZfaq because they refuse to support lossless codecs. The most recent one was about 18GB and had less than 5 minutes of video. Considering most of the size comes from me having to resize the video so KZfaq actually uses a decent bitrate, a lossless codec would almost completely nullify the difference in filesizes due to information hardly changing.

Hey Linus, Just wondering if I am able to download your video here so I can use in a public area? (By public I mean my school) Cheers

I always wanted to know this!!!!

Low-level programming as fast as possible

I prefer KLite Codec Pack

Ok, great, but I was looking for info on the different codecs themselves and when to use what and the differences. Make a video on that please. For people who want to convert and render things.

Dear Techquickie, can u please explain the differences between modem and routers? and what good use are wireless/wired modems/routers?

Thanks for the information. :)

what about klite codec pack? I've been using that codec pack since forever

Thanks for this vid I really need this for a little explanation but can you do some indepth and more explanation on this subject really need to know a lot more info.

Love CCCP, used it since Naruto 65.

1:44 The breaths are real.

Awesome video, thank you! +1 for pain in the patut

Hopefully someone sees this, and can point me in the right direction: My gen 1 chromecast consistently chops the audio when youtube videos are highly static for a few seconds. It's like the audio codec stumbles when the video codec is idle. Typical case is powerpoint slides and other low information screens. This is only a minor nuisance to me, but I'm really curious about what's going on...

So damn well explained!

Please explain the differences between 120htz TV's and 120htz Monitors. Advantages and disadvantages. But mainly, why advertised 120htz TV will only play 60htz when a computer is plugged in.

Just for an idea of how big these audio files can be, titanfall uses uncompressed audio for the PC version, the game is only 15GB while the audio is 35GB. So just the uncompressed audio is more than double the file size of everything else in the game.

i must say Linus, that was actually a good segue. is that a new record? one good one? :D

So is a codec a file format? Or is it a program/software that performs the actions? Or is it a driver that works with different file types?

I have always used K-lite codec pack, you get the choise if you want to install WMP classic and gives you alot of codecs.

so basically, with higher and higher video quality coming to a end within the next decade (getting as detailed as the human eye allows) and with videos remaining the same length in duration, as well as 5g around the corner we just have to wait for Moore's law to catch up to where lossless compression no longer becomes an issue, where net speeds can stream 60 gigs worth with ease, and hard drive space reaches into the hundreds of terabytes, is this correct, or will it ALWAYS be a "cat and mouse game" within a lifetimes (foreseeable) future? (now to 50 years from now?)

nice, I've never really looked too deep into this stuff I just install cccp and don't worry about it.

I used to use K-Lite and always had a backup player in the form of KMPlayer, because K-Lite just doesn't work with everything. Then i switched to KMPlayer entirely since it worked better than K-Lite, but then they "evolved" and i had to get rid of it, and now i use GOM Player, so far so good. I didn't like VLC for a lot of reasons (not playback related)

LOVE YOU LINUS! also tell hotspot shield it just got a new friend since now i can take full advantage of netflix! love them! cheap too! best around!.... now you wont see me for at least a year got that much to watch!

Hey Linus, Can you explain what sound cards do and when you need to get one?

This is way to advanced for tech quickie, though it was meant to explain more simply

Is it possible to shrink a video file to ultra small size so i can store more movies in my 500gb hdd???

What about where there are fewer colours in the image particularly at darker ranges where it is so horrible and looks so bad. Like a sunset where the gradient change of colours throught the sky suddenly changes from each section to next with very noticable difference in colour between them raher than gradual. This is another form of compression I presume? What is that particular form of compression called? I'm guessing youtube uses it and that you cant change it by any chance even when uploading?! hah - I mean it is really bad sometimes. Why cant that type of compression be removed but keep the others? Or is it just with h.264 or whatever that you just get what you get and h264 is what it is and you cant change different parts of the compression or encode with some compression features but not others. I want hq 4k vids but this apparent youtube compression spoils them. Do they just use standard h264?

A hardware codec isn't just a DAC and ADC, though... You can get hardware Encoders and Decoders for all those compression standards you pointed out... I should know, I work in a team that writes drivers for a Video Decoder at my job. :P

thank god for linus

I love Combined Community Codec Pack Codec Pack!

surprised linus didnt mention GOM player, after VLC. For some reason, movies look better on GOM player, than VLC (which makes no sense to me since VLC is streaming). Anyone, what's best place for GOM player codec pack?

Techquickie tell us about the ongoing revolution of HEVC/H.265 + x265 and how its processing power disadvantages are continuously being mitigated in the CPU-GPU world as we speak into possibly the best codec tradeoff so far.

Wow first time i actually liked a sponsor

Interesting, and good video XD

1:56 "lossy" compressed/autotuned pun?

Soooo, if i want to record stuff, what codec should i use. I have an AMD graphic card and i mostly use the H.264 codec provided by AMD. I am confused :(

Nearly every file format is a container. Even a mp3 can store data like the track name, album cover or artist

I use K-Lite Codec Pack (Mega). It can integrate itself with Windows Media Player to play formats not originally designed to play, such as *.flv, *.mkv, and *.ogg. The benefits are more noticeable in Windows XP than say Windows 7 because WMP11 plays less formats on its own compared to WMP12, although both media players can benefit. It even has a DVD decoder; ffmpeg or LAV. One of the biggest problems with Windows 8/8.1 is that DVD playback has been forced out of WMP12. I understand that Microsoft didn't want to include the codecs anymore past Windows 7 because money but why not leave the DVD option in the menus? The worst that would happen is an error that no codec has been installed. Microsoft's reasoning is forcing standards of live streaming content rather than having backwards compatibility with the older disk formats. True, VLC Media Player can run on Windows 8/8.1 but why not leave the DVD playback open-ended?

lol I had to slow down the video speed in order to catch up on all the terms he's throwing at me. Great explanation regardless!

I usually use PotPlayer or Media Player Classic to play video.

One of the best media players is potplayer , i find it better than the other options with its rich features and ease of use .

The KMPlayer is a good media player. Contains some codecs that vlc doesnt. At least it did when I used it a few years back

did anyone else get this video when looking up the metal gear Codec Conversions

that troll! applebite. You´re the best.

Okay, I have a question. What are these Codex things you see on pirating sites??? I don't use them, or pirate at all for that matter, I'm just very curious as to what these "Codex" things do. Is it full software, or just some type of launcher thing. Plz reply. :D

Thank you very much you solved my laptop problem. شكرا جزيلا لقد حليت مشكلة اللابتوب تبعي

Hello, can you please make a video on H.265 aka HEVC?

I use VLC for all my video stuff, and foobar2000 with some extra codecs and tweaks installed for my audio.

If you sent a file that is formatted using one codec, and sent it to another computer without that codec , is it that the second computer can't read it without the same codec?

The only Codec (software) I use is to compress AVI files into waAAAAYYY smaller versions with unnoticeable quality difference. (useful for FRAPS)

Well I actually have a problem: I bought a NAS and transfere all my pictures, music and movies on to it. But I am not able to use it on my Panasonic Viera TV! It detect the NAS, but not a single file, picture or video that I have on it. I was on costumer suport with Panasonic for some time exhaning some like 8 e-mails. Befor they cind of just said. I have "wrong codec" on all the stuff I put on my NAS. So the TV does not suport it. So, can I change codec and / or can I some how fix this in any way? Please help he with this.

CCCP is a tad outdated. but it has a adorable chiyo chan background for Media player classic. i personally use lav filters megamix (www.videohelp.com/software/LAV-Filters-Megamix) it offers a selection of 3 players (i use MPC HC), many codecs. including a hardware accelerated codec (called Madvr) that can give some amazing quality for h264 and h265.

2:30 woa wait their CPU heavy??? i was under the impression that we use them for proxy editing because they aren't.

Please make a video on x265 10 bit HEVC and why is it too hard to play on old smartphones