# What's the name of that...

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [April 5, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166 "2007-04-05T16:03:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166/1 "2007-04-05T16:03:43Z")

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…program that’ll tell you what codecs you need installed to watch a specific vid?

I used it all the time in college for porn but I can’t remember what it’s called.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166/2 "2007-04-05T21:44:11Z")

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not sure… but VLC media player will play anything AFAIK

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**Author:** ![\_Karu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/_karu/32/7602_2.png) [@\_Karu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/_Karu)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166/3 "2007-04-05T22:26:41Z")

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ffdshow -\> a good collection of driver, all in one.

VLC -\> :tup:

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166/4 "2007-04-06T06:21:43Z")

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I remembered the one I was thinking of. It’s called g-spot. No wonder I couldn’t find it. :roll2:

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**Author:** ![SkunkApe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skunkape/32/7575_2.png) [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166/5 "2007-04-06T06:33:16Z")

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divx? xvid?

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166/6 "2007-04-06T07:30:24Z")

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Naw, it’s not a codec. It’s a program that will read how a video file is encoded and tell you what audio and video codecs you need to play it.

 ![http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/images/GSpot260RC01.png](http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/images/GSpot260RC01.png)  
[http://www.headbands.com/gspot/](http://www.headbands.com/gspot/)

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**Author:** ![MaXiMuS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maximus/32/4971_2.png) [@MaXiMuS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaXiMuS)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-the-name-of-that/27166/7 "2007-04-06T09:20:39Z")

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ive used this prog as well, great tool