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Windows experience index update killed my video playback
everything was fine i was able to play video normally until i updated my windows experience index after which videos will play for a few seconds losing quality as it goes until about 3 sec in when it just gives up music doesn't even get that far. the only thing i did this time was update the index. it is definitely not a hardware performance issue my cpu ram and graphics are more than adequate. this has happened before but was fixed by reinstalling windows last time though had had made a lot of changes in the relevant time frame and could not guess which caused it.
during the index update process it mentions "optimizing video decoding" which i am guessing is where it kills playback.
i would greatly appreciate any insight into my issue
update
i learned that vlc player uses its own codecs. so i tried that and everything works like it supposed to but itunes and smplyer which i prefer are broken is there a way to reinstall the standard windows codecs or reset them to default?
Last edited by koori; 13 Mar 2013 at 12:57.