Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a Video Codecs that supports Windows system. Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a freeware with 1003KB.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of video and audio codecs and tools that are required to encode and decode (that is, play) audio and video files. With this pack, according to the developer, you should be able to play 99% of all the movies and music files that you download off the Internet, and stay up to date with the latest codecs through the program's Codec Update Service.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is free and user-friendly, as you get all the work done with just a couple of clicks. Also, it keeps your computer up to date with the latest codecs and it's 100% spamware / adware / spyware / free.
But more importantly, unlike other codec packs which include several filters and decoders that are capable of decoding the same media format (which usually cause many conflicts and errors) Windows Essentials Codec Pack was especially designed to assign each file type to the most appropriate filter or decoder, which not only reduces the installer size but also eliminates many of the conflicts and errors caused by multiple codecs being used to decode the same file type.
Supported formats: 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, AVC, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, M4A, MPC, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV/MKA, MTM, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, WavPack, ATRAC3, XviD, XM, WV, UMX
Windows Essentials Codec Pack included Codecs / DirectShow / VfW Filters / Tools
- APE Source Filter: DirectShow audio decoder filter used to decode Monkey's Audio files (APE files)
RadLight APE Source Filter enables playback of APE (Monkey's Audio) encoded files
Monkey's Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or lqt that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey's Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music. That means it always sounds perfect - exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space. (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip6¾4 for your music) The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey's Audio files back to the exact, original files. That way, you'll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you'll always be able to recreate the original music CD if something ever happens to yours.
- AC3 Filter: DirectShow audio decoder and processor filter used to decode audio tracks in movies (DVD, MPEG4 and others)
AC3 Filter is high quality open source DirectShow audio decoder and processor filter used to decode audio tracks in movies (DVD, MPEG4 and others). It has a priority on wide functionality and convenient settings.
- AVI Splitter: Replacement for DirectShow's default Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Splitter (It can open many broken files and can reindex when needed)
Gabest open source AVI Splitter is a replacement for DirectShow's default avi splitter, which allows you to play and seek incomplete AVI files as long as the first few megabytes have downloaded correctly.
AVI is the original windows media format. As with OGM and Matroska, AVI is a wrapper format, mostly used in conjunction with MPEG-4 formats such as XVID and DIVX in recent days but in theory, it can be used with most audio and video compression schemes.
You do not need any special component to play AVI files (other than decoders for the compression scheme AVI files may contain). However, the Gabest Opensource AVI Splitter is more flexible than the standard AVI splitter that ships with windows as it can better handle incomplete or semi-corrupted files.
- CDDA Reader Filter: DirectShow audio decoder capable of reading Audio CDs
- CDXA Reader Filter: DirectShow video decoder capable of reading (S)VCDs and XCDs
- CoreAAC Filter: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) DirectShow audio decoder capable of reading AAC files
CoreAAC is a DirectShow Decoder Filter for the AAC Audio Codec using the FAAD2 engine with SBR (HE-AAC) support
CoreAAC is a DirectShow-Decoder for the AAC audio codec, it allows you to play files containing AAC-audio in many players, for example 'Windows Media Player', 'Media Player Classic' or 'The Core Media Player'.
CoreAAC is completly free and open-source. It is based on FAAD2 and released under the GNU GPL licence. For licence and patent reasons there are no compiled versions on this website. But you0¡7ll find them at Rarewares.
AAC means 'Advanced Audio Coding', and in the beginning it was also called MPEG-2 NBC for 'Non-Backwards Compatible' as opposed to the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 BC (with 5.1 channels) standards.
AAC is able to include 48 full-bandwidth (up to 96 kHz) audio channels in one stream plus 15 low frequency enhancement (LFE, limited to 120 Hz) channels and up to 15 data streams. Besides it has further multi-language capacities.
It is now considered to be the actual "state of the art" in general audio coding and the natural successor of MPEG-1/2 Layer III / MP3 in the new multimedia standard MPEG-4 that uses MP4 as the container format for all kinds of content.
MPEG formal listening tests demonstrated that AAC provides an audio quality at 96 kbps which is slightly better than MP3 at 128 kbps and MP2 at 192 kbps.
- CoreFlac Decoder: DirectShow audio decoder for the Flac audio codec
- FFDShow: DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and various other audio and video formats. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder
FFDSHOW is an Open Source DirectShow decoding (and encoding) filter for decompressing several video formats, including DivX, XviD, WMV, FLV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 type movies. FFDShow also supports decoding of virtually all audio formats used in movies, including AC3, DTS, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, and several subtitle formats.
- FLV Splitter: Capable of splitting Flash Video files (FLV) and decoding On2 VP62 Video streams (notable users of the FLV format include YouTube, Google Video, Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video and MySpace.)
FLV Splitter is DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing Flash Video (FLV) movies, which is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet. Most Flash Video content is viewed online (notable users of FLV format include YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, Yahoo! Video and MySpace), but in order to view .FLV content locally, you need a splitter installed.
- OGG Splitter: DirectShow OGG Splitter capable of splitting OGG and OGM file(s) and enables to play / create .ogm wrapped video
- GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder: DirectShow MPEG decoder filter can be used to play MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams
GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder is a Open Source DirectShow MPEG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2) decoder filter. It can be used to play VCD, SVCD, DVD, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams in any media player based on DirectShow. In addition, it can be used as DVD decoder for unencrypted discs.
- MOD Source Filter: DirectShow filter decoder capable of decoding Tracker files (MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD and UMX)
- MPEG Splitter: DirectShow splitter capable of splitting MPEG1/MPEG2 files (MP(E)G, VOB, DAT, TS, TP, etc.)
- MPV Decoder: DirectShow decoder capable of decoding MPEG1/MPEG2 Video streams, and DVDs
- MPA Splitter: DirectShow Splitter capable of splitting MPEG Audio files (MP3) and MPEG4 Audio files (AAC)
- MPC Source Filter: DirectShow decoder filter capable of decoding MusePack Audio files (MPC).
RadLight MPC Filter is a DirectShow decoder that enables playback of MPC (MusePack) encoded files in DirectShow based players such as Winamp, Windows Media Player and more.
Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It's not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won't be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file.
- MP4 Splitter: DirectShow Splitter capable of splitting MP4, M4A, 3GP and HD-MOV files
- Matroska Splitter: DirectShow splitter capable of splitting Matroska files (MKV and MKA)
Matroska Splitter is a Open Source DirectShow splitter filter for the Matroska (.mkv) container format. Please note that this splitter is only capable of opening the Matroska container itself -- The video/audio found within the Matroska container can be virtually found in any format, such as DivX5.
Matroska (.mkv and .mka for video and audio extenstions files respectively) is a project to develop a free and open source software multimedia container format similar to Apple's QuickTime, MPEG's MP4 or Microsoft's Advanced Systems Format. It is named after the Matryoshka doll.
- Media Player Classic: an open source media player that looks just like Windows Media Player, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support
Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight Open Source media player for Windows. It may look just like the good-ol' Media Player, but has lots of nice extra features. Media Player Classic has, for instance, a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real player Alternative), and lots more. Definitely a great replacement for the huge and clumsy Microsoft Media Players.
- OFR Source Filter: DirectShow filter decoder capable of decoding OptimFROG Audio files (OFR)
- RealMedia Splitter: DirectShow splitter that allows you to play RealNetworks audio/video files.
- SHOUTcast Source Filter: DirectShow decoder filter capable of handling internet radio stations streams (http://www.shoutcast.com)
- WV Splitter / Decoder: DirectShow WV Splitter and decoder capable of splitting and decoding WavPack Audio files (WV)
- VobSub Filter: DirectShow Vob Subtitles filter capable of displaying (embedded) Subtitle files (SRT, SUB, IDX, etc)
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