Play almost ANY type of audio and video file on your system with this free Mega Codec Pack

[K-Lite Codec Pack] is a collection of many popular audio and video codecs that will let you play files of almost all popular audio/video formats on your system. It’s always updated with latest codec version and the site maintains a change log for you to keep a track of updated codecs in the codec pack. It’s user friendly and will let you choose the codecs that you want to selectively install onto your system. All the codecs in the codec pack are bug free releases which means that you will be installing only the stable releases of these codecs. The current version of K-Lite Mega Codec Pack works on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 and XP64.

Current release of K-Lite Mega Codec Pack [1.62] has the following:

Player:

• Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.0+ SVN build 2006-10-16]

ffdshow:

• ffdshow [rev. 696]
• ffdshow VFW interface
• extra plugins

DirectShow video filters:

• XviD [version 1.1.2]
• DivX [version 6.2.5.34]
• On2 VP6 [version 6.4.2.0]
• On2 VP7 [version 7.0.10.0]
• MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 (Cyberlink) [version 6.0.0.3402]
• MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 (DScaler5) [version 0.0.8.0]
• MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.3]
• MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 (MainConcept) [version 1.0.0.78]
• MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 (Ligos) [version 4.0.0.77]

VFW video codecs:

• XviD [version 1.1.2]
• x264 [rev. 600]
• Windows Media 9 VCM [version 9.0.1.369]
• On2 VP6 [version 6.4.2.0] [Encoding]
• On2 VP7 [version 7.0.10.0] [Encoding]
• Intel Indeo [version 5.2562.15.54]
• Intel Indeo [version 4.51.16.2]
• Intel Indeo [version 3.24.15.03]
• Intel I.263 [version 2.55.1.16]
• huffyuv [version 2.1.1 CCE Patch 0.2.5]
• I420 (Helix) [version 1.2]
• YV12 (Helix) [version 1.2]

QuickTime Alternative:

• QuickTime codecs [version 7.1.3.100]
• QuickTime plugin for Internet Explorer
• QuickTime plugin for Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape/Opera
• Extra QuickTime plugins
• QuickTime DirectShow parser
• QuickTime DirectShow decoder wrapper

Real Alternative:

• RealMedia codecs [version 6.0.12.1741]
• RealMedia plugin for Internet Explorer
• RealMedia plugin for Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape/Opera
• RealMedia DirectShow splitter [version 1.0.1.1]

DirectShow audio filters:

• MP3 (Fraunhofer) [version 1.9.0.311]
• AC3/DTS/LPCM (AC3Filter) [version 1.11]
• MP1/MP2 (MainConcept) [version 1.0.0.78]
• Vorbis (CoreVorbis) [version 1.1.0.79]
• AAC (CoreAAC) [version 1.2.0.575]
• MusePack [version 1.0.0.3]
• Monkey’s Audio [version 1.00]
• WavPack (CoreWavPack) [version 1.0.3]
• FLAC (illiminable) [version 0.73.1936]
• Voxware MetaSound [version 1.0.0.12]

ACM audio codecs:

• MP3 (Fraunhofer) [version 3.3.2]
• MP3 (LAME) [version 3.97]
• AC3 (ffcHandler) [version 1.3.1]
• Vorbis [version 0.0.3.6]
• DivX Audio [version 4.2.0.0]

DirectShow source filters:

• AVI splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.7]
• AVI splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.6.338.23]
• MP4 splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.6.338.23]
• MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.3]
• Matroska splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.6.338.23]
• Matroska splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.2.9]
• Ogg splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.6.338.23]
• FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.1]
• MPEG-TS splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.6.338.23]
• MPEG demuxer (Cyberlink) [version 1.0.0.4528]
• MPEG demuxer (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.3]
• MPEG demuxer (MainConcept) [version 1.0.1.20]
• MPEG demuxer (Elecard) [version 1.0.31.51211]
• MP3 Source (DCoder) [version 1.3]
• SHOUTcast Source [version 1.0.0.1]

DirectShow subtitle filter:

• DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.37]
• DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.33]

DirectShow audio filters (general purpose):

• Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher [version 0.9.9]

Encoding tools:

• LAME CLI and DLL [version 3.97]
• LameDropXPd [version 3.97]
• OggDropXPd [version 1.8.9 aoTuVb5]

Tools:

• GSpot Codec Information Appliance [version 2.60 rc1]
• VobSubStrip [version 0.11]
• GraphEdit [build 041201]
• MMCompView [version 1.10]
• AVI Fixed [version 2.0b1]
• FourCC Changer
• Bitrate Calculator