Comprehensive codec collection for Windows media playback.
Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack 5 is a freeware codec app and developed by MediaCodec for Windows.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Several audio and video codecs which support many media formats
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video DirectShow codecs and filters. With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music files that you download off the Internet, stay up to date with the latest codecs with the Audio/Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many conflicts and errors caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly near complete solution for all your video and audio needs, with it you can play audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, and XCDs on the fly, and it adds support for 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, and UMX formats so you could play any video/audio file with your favorite DirectShow media player or with the (included) Media Player Classic.
Features of Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack
- "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply".
- Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support.
- Added several new preset autoload conditions.
- Added soft telecine detection.
- AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage.
- Better handling of DVD menus.
- Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios.
- Improved autocrop algorithm.
- Libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP.
- Libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos.
- OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism.
- Various updates to libavcodec.
Compatibility and License
Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack is provided under a freeware license on Windows from video codec packs with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 5.0 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack run on?
Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
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