"Context Alloc" error with videos.

[aimeeandbeatles]

This is weird -- today I was installing a few multimedia programs (all virus and spyware-scanned), and now whenever I put my cursor over a video file, I get error saying "context alloc." First time it happened it crashed explorer.exe, now it's just an annoyance.

What should I do? I googled it, it said to uninstall all the programs, but seriously.

My guess is something to do with codecs -- I accidentally installed two codec packs, K-Lite and something else.

Edit: List of programs installed today (which is when the error started):
DVD Knife
AIV DVD Cutter
winLAME
Cole2K Media -- VideoDub Pack
Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Okay -- got it fixed. Uninstalled the extra codec pack.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Okay, now I'm getting the same error again, but only with one video. When I add or play it in any media player, I get it. (It still plays though). The only difference between this and other videos is that I used Avidemux to change the codec to reduce the size about 5 megabytes.

More of an annoyance than anything.

 

[Zelig]

Uninstall every codec and media player you have, then install this.

Anything else is a waste of time and effort.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Uninstall every codec and media player you have, then install this.

Anything else is a waste of time and effort.

KLite works plenty fine. I havent encountered a video that I cant play with it.

 

[Zelig]

KLite works plenty fine. I havent encountered a video that I cant play with it.

That doesn't make it good.

Why should I use CCCP?

Why CCCP? Because it achieves as much as possible with as little as possible. Other codec packs tend to either randomly not work, break the system, or install far too much cruft. With the CCCP, you know that when you install it properly, it just works. You don't need to mess around in the options to get it to work, and chances are it will resolve any other conflicts on install as well. CCCP was invented so you can "Uninstall everything else, install the pack and live happily ever after". That being said, for the adventurous there are pages of options available to tweak if you feel like it.

Who endorses CCCP?

We are officially endorsed by the Matroska Project, the people who brought you the MKV format. They originally provided their own codec pack, but dropped it in favor of ours as it was of higher quality and better maintained.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Uhhm, yes it does? And it does work out of the box, and you can install the minimum needed for your preferences. I will admit that it is smaller, but if you've already got KLite, why change?