missing dvd codec?

[Archangel08]

does anybody know what codec i might be missing, because whenever i play homemade dvd's on my laptop, i only get video but no audio...and by homemade, i mean stuff that was shot with a camcorder and then burned onto a blank dvd-r, stuff that average joes can do at home...and these dvds do work perfectly normally when i play them on a dvd player on the tv, so it's not as if the dvd is messed up...so does anyone know which codec it might be, or at least know how i can find out which codec i'm missing?

[Jecht]

What codecs do you currently have? I've always been told that this (http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php) is the best.

[Lackey]

G-spot codec information appliance will tell you exactly what codec you're missing, then you can search google for that codec and download it

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/download.html