About the K-Lite Codec Pack

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

• It is very user-friendly and easy to use.
• It is updated frequently. So it is always up-to-date with the newest and best components.
• The pack provides an excellent out-of-the-box experience for novice users, while at the same time offering plenty of options for expert users to tweak things.
• All included components have been carefully selected for specific purposes. It is not just a random bunch of stuff thrown together.
• The pack works on all versions of Windows from XP to Windows 8. The intelligent installer automatically adapts itself based on your version of Windows. It also adapts itself based on what other codecs are already installed on your computer.
• Components are automatically configured to work together in perfect harmony. Something that is not easily achieved if you would install everything manually.
• The pack offers a high level of flexibility. You can for example configure your preferred splitters for many formats.
• Works great with Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. But also with all other DirectShow players, such as Media Player Classic, ZoomPlayer, BS.Player, KMPlayer, PotPlayer, and others.
• The installation is fully customizable. You can choose which components you want to install.
• The pack has many options, which allows you to tweak it to your own specific needs and preferences.
• Uninstallation removes everything that was installed by the pack. Including all registry keys. All changes are properly undone and reverted to the state prior to the installation of the pack.
• It is extremely easy to make a fully customized unattended installation with the integrated wizard.
• It does not contain any codecs or filters that are known to be bad, buggy or unstable. In fact, the installer is able to detect and disable several known troublemakers that may already be present on your computer. This solves problems and improves system stability.
• It helps clean up other codecs installed on your computer. The installer is able to detect and remove over 100 different codec and filter packs. This help you get rid of old junk, prevents conflicts, and leaves you with just the essential and best codecs.
• The installer is able to detect broken codecs and filters on your system, and helps you to fix those problems. This unique functionality has helped thousands of people solve problems they were unable to fix themselves.
• It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play all your movies and music.
• The pack has options to activate video thumbnail generation in Windows Explorer. All popular video file formats are supported.
• Adds support for showing file properties such as duration and width/height in Windows Explorer for FLV and MKV video files.
• The pack automatically configures Windows Media Center to recognize all common audio and video file formats, so that such files show up in your media library.
• This pack has a huge user base. This means that problems are found and resolved quickly.
• There are different variants of the pack. From small to large. You can pick the one that fits your needs.

Variants

There are four variants of the K-Lite Codec Pack:

The basic variant contains everything you need to play all the common video file formats. Such as AVI, MKV, MP4, OGM, and FLV. This pack is for those who like a small no-nonsense pack.

The standard variant contains some additional features compared to the basic variant. It contains Media Player Classic, which is an excellent player for video files. It also has (better) support for playback of DVDs. This pack is recommended for the average user.

The full variant has many additional features. It supports playback of several (lossless) audio formats. It contains VFW/ACM codecs that can be used for encoding. It has playback support for a few legacy audio and video formats. This package is suitable for power users.

The mega variant has almost the same contents as the full variant, but additionally contains some extra DirectShow filters and VFW/ACM codecs.

For detailed tables with comparisons of the abilities and contents of the different variants of the codec pack, have a look at the comparison of abilities and comparison of contents pages.

To download the K-Lite Codec Pack, visit the download page.

Compatible with Windows XP, 2003, Vista, and Windows 7.