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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
Thanks all.
I still don't understand why it would play via the net but not downloaded.
Anyway, I grabbed that VLC program and it seems to be working OK, at least on a short trial here at home. Wife is pleased now so that helps.
We'll just have to see how it plays out now.
Thanks again for the help.
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Codecs are extensions, libraries, that are available to apps that can use them.
But the app needs to be aware that they exist and know where to find them.
Web streaming, what a site displays in your browser is typically not the original source file.
When a user uploads a file it is often renecoded to a "friendlier" format and what you are seeing, what is being streamed is a lower resolution copy of the original.
This is done to make it more compatible and more often to make it band width friendly.
When you download the content locally you are getting the original unconverted source.
So the answer to "it works there but not here" is because what's here is not the same thing as what's there.