Today, a home PC is a multifunctional media platform for everyday use. For the user, it is simply necessary to keep the computer fully armed at all times: the system must be able to work with video files, music, computer games and web pages. However, sometimes individual components fail, and you have to manually restore the machine's capabilities. And especially often - the ability to play videos.
Videos are used in completely different fields, and therefore problems with them can have completely different reasons.
The most common videos on the Internet today: they are usually contained by various kinds of video hosting sites, social networks and other projects. To play videos from web pages, you need a workable flash plugin. If the video was playing before, but now it has stopped, then try closing and opening the browser again (this will reload the settings). If this does not help, then go to the official website and download the latest update of this subroutine or try installing a new Internet browser.
Videos from the hard drive are played by different mechanisms. There is a great variety of "stationary" formats of videos (several hundred), so it will not be able to handle each computer without special training. This preparation for him will be "codecs" - a set of algorithms that explain to the system how to read files. One of the best codec packs is the K-lite codec pack, which is fully installed to play a huge number of different formats. If its installation does not help, try changing the player (for example, the Media Player Classic supplied with K-Lite).
Playback from portable media also has its own nuances. Today, the Blu-ray disc format is gaining great popularity, which allows you to transfer huge amounts of information and, as a result, video of the highest quality. However, in order to read such a disc, you need to have an appropriate drive (remember the transition from CD to DVD) and, again, special codecs.
However, one will hardly be able to limit oneself to codecs. Files on blue-ray are structured in a special way, so it will not be superfluous to download and install a special Blu-ray player, of which there are many on the Internet. Without it, you will not be able to work even with a disk image downloaded from the worldwide network - you will have to constantly work with Rip-s (recycled copies).
