K-Lite Codec Pack 20.1.0 Final

@Wick

This pack works perfectly fine on a clean Windows install. So either you did something wrong, or more likely, your problems are caused by buggy graphics drivers.

@Anonymous

That is a false positive detection of AVG. It probably deleted the uninstaller.

Playing a m2ts file nothing else could! Hats off for this!!!!

@Greg

maybe you should go back and actually read my thread going through my problems. It's ffdshow that keeps causing problems, not codecs. Thanks for 'trying' though.

@Aerik

Playback of WMV files is done purely with codecs from Microsoft.

@Russell

K-Lite is the best codec pack available. It will most likely solve your problems.

If you still can not play the file after installing the pack, then open your file in the included GSpot tool. That can tell you what kind of audio in inside your AVI file.

@Anonymous

Check if the region of your DVD drive is configured correctly. If the region of the drive does not match that of the DVD that you want to play, then it will result in errors.

Hey there. Just installed K-lite Codec 3.6.5 Standard on my IBM ThinkPad laptop, but when I try to play a DVD, Windows Media Player keeps saying there's an error:

WMP has encountered a problem and needs to close

I tried playing the DVD via Media Player Classic and got a similar error.

Clicking on the PCFriendly icon for the DVD gives this error message:

Unknown or unsupported DVD decoder encountered

I tried uninstalling then reinstalling K-Lite but got the same messages. Without K-Lite I get the message that a compatible DVD decoder hasn't been installed on the computer. Anyone have any ideas?

I don't know why some people say it doesn't work with vista x64. I installed and works JUST GREAT!
So k lite codec pack WORKS WITH VISTA X64!!!

Does K-Lite Codec Pack 3.6.5 Work on Vista X64?

The thing with the dual audio problem is that it did not present itself prior to the problems with the video decoder. Before, I could easily switch between the english and japanese audio.

Another interesting point of this problem was that after really tweaking media player classic I was able to get it to play only one audio track, it would only play the japanese audio. Yet the English was the default track.

just got a new laptop, has vista with wmp11 on it. Will this solve my problems running ipod files (mp4a)? also will i be able to play all avi, acc etc through the same codec pack?

@Aerik

There are several easy solutions for the dual audio problem that you have. You can find them in the FAQ.

Suddenly I wonder if I was a victim of the 3vix mp4 codec stack overflow vulnerability.

http://hackademix .net/2007/12/09/pr0nowned-3ivx-mp4-codec-stack-overflow/

@Greg:

All I can say is that if I had ffdshow video decoder enabled at all with version 3.6.2, it would eventually freeze up my pc.

The interesting part, I guess, is it would happen a couple of seconds after I press stop on media player classic.

I tried a clean uninstall and reinstall, and went to configure and just clicked "reset to recommended settings" and that seemed to fix the problem. Although since I had done very little to cause the problem in the first place, and undoing everything I thought I had tweaked did not seem to help, it's iffy why this worked.

I just installed 3.6.5, I'll see how things turn out.

I also had a problem with the audio decoder, though it wasn't debilitating. I had some anime .avi files with dual english/japanese audio. Suddenly after going from 3.5.4 to 3.6.2, playing these movies would bring up two instances of ffdshow audio, along with two instances of the winamp dsp plugin I was using (DFX), and played both audio streams simultaneously.

Opening the decoder and setting directshow to allow only one instance of ffdshow audio didn't help.

Then .flv files would have no sound.

I eventually just went back to 3.5.4