h264 = pissing me off

well i know it looks pretty nice and all, but can anyone recommend me a codec pack thats good in H264?

my WMPClassic isnt playing my fate stay night mkvs, but VLC can. VLC crashes if i try to skip anywhere to more than past the 10 minute mark.

this sux :(

The latest ffdshow alpha is all you need.

Get the Combined Community Codec Pack. Includes all your needed codecs and two players.

>>3
includes ffdshow as a h264 player. If you want to be up-to-date:
http://x264.nl/  has the latest stable build of ffdshow + installer without cccp.

I try to avoid h264 like the plaugue.

>>5
fail.

>>5
Yeah, good luck with that, when it becomes the standard for a whole lot of things such as TV, DVD, as well as a huge amount of internet-obtained stuff.

>>7
HD-DVD/Blu Ray even.

>>7
h264 won't be the standard for TV. The whole point of h264 is compression so the only media it will benefit are those with limited capacities like the internet and video files.

>>1 I use coreavc and makes it run even smoother

>>9
In what way does TV not have limited capabilities? It's all about fitting as much data down a limited bandwidth, as with the internet and storage media. I'm talking HDTV here anyway, which is quite likely to use H.264... so basically, if anyone's trying to 'avoid it like the plague' they'll eventually have to succumb to its charms, so might as well suck it up now.

'avoiding things like the plague' because they're popular just makes you look like a total fucktard.