Hi all, I've used Sony Vegas for a while now but keep stumbling across videos that wont play or either the video stream or audio stream isn't recognised, even though they play faultlessly in any media player, divx player, xbox etc. Normally it was a case of find correct codec audio/video then continue, recently however I've not been having any luck so I decided to install a codec pack. Yes I know that was a big mistake and it has caused more problems than it solved, my question is what are the rock solid codecs for video editing? What are the bare minimum needed to recognise most filetypes? What are the most compatible with Sony Vegas? It annoys me that I spent all this money on this software and it doesn't work boo!

Also before I installed said codec pack I 'flushed out' alot of codecs by manually deleting them is there any basic codecs I should have. If anyone is interested I'll post a list of what I have got to see if any obvious ones are missing, I just have to uninstall this horrible pack! Thanks.