Recently, I had an issue installing the Ogg Vorbis codec on my Window 7 64bit OS. I downloaded the latest version I could find (v0.0.3.6) from here, but I couldn’t install it.
Finally, I found the solution. Just follow these steps:
- Unzip the contents of the file you downloaded to a folder. Make sure that there are no spaces to the path of the folder. I will use the
c:\temp
folder for the rest of the procedure. - Open a command prompt with administrative rights. One way is to type
cmd
to the search box of the start menu and either pressCtrl + Shift + Enter
, or right click on thecmd.exe
icon that appears on the search results and selectRun as Administrator
. - If you have 64bit Windows, your starting folder is
C:\Windows\system32
. You should change toC:\Windows\SysWOW64
. One way is to typecd ..\SysWOW64
. If you have 32bit Windows, you can stay atC:\Windows\system32
. - Type in the following:
rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 0 c:\Temp\vorbisacm.inf
. Note that thec:\Temp
folder is the one I previously unzipped the codec files. You should replace this with your own folder of choice.
That’s it. All should be working fine now…