K-Lite Codec Pack 20.1.0 Final

The pack is awesome but last two versions are too slow. I re-installed 6.20 for a better performance. Everything is OK now. Please make something for the next release.

Thanks.

Why stop supporting rbmb format? You've already left QuickTime behind some time ago. The big advantage of this pack is compatibility of different formats, but now you are abandoning them one by one?

K-Lite Codec Pack 6.2.0 Full

this is simply the best codec pack available.it took me hardly seconds to overcome the problem of player different files in wmp 11.

I recently bought a 1gb Intel N270 crappy netbook to get to grips with PC's (the first I've ever owned, but definitely not the first I've used). I wanted a machine to seriously abuse and to see how much I could squeeze out of how little.
I'll get to the point; I'm a movie, music and games fanatic, and I have to say this has helped improve my experience of video and sound quality immeasurably.

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I honestly don't think that unless I shed out some serious cash on some dedicated hardware, that I could possibly improve upon the viewing and listening experience I've had with this AWESOME codec pack. That said, it does take some setting up, such as disabling one or two Windows Media Player update-type annoyances (Google for how), and, much like other specialized software, has a mountain of options, some of which can have undesirable results. On the upside, the majority of important options have additional information when hovering the mouse pointer over them, and are highly useful if you don't want to go thingying comething up!
So if you absolutely must have superior video AND audio playback (I've switched from VLC to this after about 2 days!), then this was made for you.
On the other hand if you just want good video and audio quality, stick with Internet Explorer for streaming (no, really - I've tested against Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera for video streaming - it's very very good indeed and almost as quick as Opera to start up - get divx, flash and any other plugins/addons that you come across as missing and you're sorted), and for audio and offline video and ease of use, VLC.

-----Further Info-----
If you do get any problems with file formats not working in K Lite, just try disabling them in the options and possibly re-set the previous player as default (Google again, if you're not sure).
That's it - it's 6:30am, I wrote this review listening to Beethoven's Symphony No.7 Movement 2 Allegretto, nearly wetting myself that it sounds so good. I HAD to write a review, just to get it off my chest how good K Lite really is.
No need to give this any marks - it's brilliant,
though it does take some setting up initially.
-Video and Audiophiles - this is what you're after!
-If you just want good quality playback without too much fuss. try VLC or look into optimizing your current player (the magic of Google, again).
Night all!

@Kuti
Visit the support forum for help.

Third party decoders such as CoreAVC can cause explorer crashes.

Long time user of K-lite standard, always working fine here... thanks for your work.

IS THE PROGRAM GOOD OR NOT?!
THESE REVIEWS ARE CONFUSING ME!
I'm deciding whether I should download this program or not, I heard that there's tons of issues. I heard that this program is excellent.
OVERALL, IS THIS PROGRAM GOOD?
Oh dear, I need a codec...

@Hvati

You can customize the buttons in MPC-HC by replacing the file "toolbar.bmp". If you delete that file then you will get the old buttons back.

I like K-lite a lot but I don't like the buttons on the bottom of the newer version of MPC-HC so I have to use an older version of MPC...

I had a problem playing .avi compressed with VP7. I solved it by adding the specific line of subtype (MEDIATYPE_video) to VP7 decompressor through MPC in Options/External filters. It was the same line MPC reported as missing.

Another very good codec pack is "Ace media codec pack"

I think they are not being as updated as this 1 though, but worked fine for my XP when I had that.

Pay attention if u have a 32 bit or 64bit os and get a pack accordingly

same problem as mike below, skipping audio on any movie file which contains mp3 audio. long term user of this codec pack, this is the first time i've had an issue. as greg suggested this is not a selected speaker config issue - any other suggestions? thanks everyone!

@Mike

You probably haven't set the correct speaker configuration. You can configure it with the Codec Tweak Tool, or during installation.

Hi, people. It solved some of my problem, but created another. I use MPC (or here I used MPC home cinema) and the player doesn't see multiple audio tracks. Only the first one. What should I tweak for the mpc to start seeing and switching between multiple audio tracks in mpeg2 files (vobs)? My previous MPC had this capability, but I uninstalled everything, when installing this new k-lite codec

Actually, I can play WMV files with Windows Media Player, Jet-Audio 7.1.9.4030 Plus VX, Real Player 11.0.5 but not Media Player Classic. Before, I used K-Lite 4.1.7 Full and everything is OK! Until I set up K-Lite 4.7.0 Full and I have such problems. I don't think "You need codecs from Microsoft to play WMV files. Those are normally bundled with Windows. Install "Windows Media Format Runtimes" and you should be able to play those files" is a solution! Thanks for reply!