XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack which helps you to play all major audio and video formats. And… to complete your multimedia experience, instead of 3 or 4 different players you get one, simple integrated player that plays almost all audio and video files: Media Player Classic.

Codecs have always been a pain in the butt. This package takes from the best, all the big name creators, several small guys too, and compiles all this into a single pack. All possible conflicts are already dealt with, many user suggested default settings are implemented.

This package does not contain a media player. This package does not associates filetypes. With this package installed, you will be able to use any media player to play DVD´s, movies and video clips such as quicktime, realmedia, avi, mpeg, Flv, swf, wmv, etc. Streaming video can be played within web browsers. By default, you shouldn´t need to make any adjustments to enjoy playback immediately.

Users now have the ability to choose what is installed using the public redistributable and after an unattended install, you can select to remove specific portions without removing the entire package. Future releases will recognize previous releases and perform upgrade installations.
This package contains QuickTime v7.1.3 components with the tray icon permanently disabled.

This package currently supports 15 localized installations: The default install is English including support for the following other languages; Chinese Simplified/Traditional, Japanese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Polish and Turkish.

changelog:

* fix black+white issues with some .avi files
* fix .WMV support broken in alternate players after installing WMP11
* add new component, Koepi´s XviD Codec 1.1.2
* update Haali components to v1.6.338.23
* update FFDshow components to t494
* fix Vobsub shortcut

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

* It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
* It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
* It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn´t contain any conflicting codecs.
* It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.
* There are 3 packages available: Basic, Standard, and Full.

This Full Pack contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

* It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
* It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
* It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn´t contain any conflicting codecs.
* It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.
* There are 3 packages available: Basic, Standard, and Full.

This Full Pack contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings

CodecInstaller is a Windows program that detect which Audio&Video codecs are installed on your system and that suggest you to install the ones necessary to correctly view the movie it is distributed with: in fact it´s designed to be burned on a CD together with a compressed video, to be always able to play them.

The users who receive the CD, with a single tool with a simple and intuitive interface, can check if the necessary codecs are already installed and up-to-date and with just a click can install the ones required.

Who distributes videos on CDs can include this program to be sure that who have to see the video, will have all the necessary codecs installed.
CodecInstaller can be also used just to have the complete list of the installed codec and detailed informations on them.
Since version 1.3, contains a MovieLauncher that displays informations about the distributed video file (author, plot, director…)
Since version 1.4 can analyze avi files. It detects: width/height and ratio, lenght, video codec, framerate, size, bitrate, total frames.

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. (Note that .NET Framework is included in Windows XP. It is recommended to update to the latest version.)