Comparison of abilities

In the table below you can view which audio, video, and file formats the K-Lite Codec Pack supports. As you can see, even the smallest pack already supports playback of almost everything!

The difference between the packs lies mostly in the included tools. If you want to know more about the difference in contents of packs, then have a look at the comparison of contents page.

You might think that a lot of codecs are needed to support this large list of formats. But that is not the case. The codec pack uses just a handfull of DirectShow filters.

		B A S I C	S T A N D A R D	F U L L	M E G A
DVD and Blu-ray	Notes
Blu-ray playback	Works only if the content is decrypted! (tip: Passkey Lite) Menus are not supported.
DVD playback in MPC-HC
DVD playback in WMP	Windows Vista/7: works with all variants of the codec pack Windows 8: requires Media Center Add-On Windows 10/11: WMP does not support DVD playback!
VCD, SVCD and XCD	Note: requires using MPC-HC
DTS audio CD	Note: requires using MPC-HC
Supported video containers	File extensions
AVI	.avi .divx .amv
MPEG-PS	.mpg .mpeg .mpe .m1v .m2v .mpv2 .mp2v .m2p .vob .evo .mod
MPEG-TS	.ts .m2ts .m2t .mts .pva .tp .tpr .trp .tps .rec
MP4	.mp4 .m4v .mp4v .mpv4 .hdmov .mqv .k3g
MOV	.mov
3GP	.3gp .3gpp .3g2 .3gp2
Matroska	.mkv .mk3d
WebM	.webm .webp .weba
Ogg	.ogm .ogv
Flash Video	.flv .f4v
Windows Media	.wmv .asf
RealMedia	.rmvb .rm
Digital Video	.dv
Material Exchange Format	.mxf
DHAV	.dav
Y4M	.y4m
Windows Recorded TV Show	.wtv
FLIC	.flic .fli .flc
Various other formats	.smk .bik .mtv .ivf
Supported audio files	File extensions
MP3	.mp3
Ogg	.ogg .oga
Matroska	.mka
MPEG-4 Audio	.m4a .aac
FLAC	.flac
WavPack	.wv
Musepack	.mpc
Monkey's Audio	.ape
Apple Lossless Audio Codec	.alac
AMR	.amr
True Audio	.tta
AC3	.ac3
DTS	.dts
TrueHD	.thd .mlp
DTS-MA/HD	.dtsma .dtshd
RealMedia	.ra
Opus	.opus
Speex	.spx
AIFF	.aif .aiff .aifc
CoreAudio Format	.caf
TAK	.tak
Shorten	.shr
CAF	.caf
Direct Stream Digital (DSD)	.dsf .dff
MIDI	.midi .mid
Various other formats	.snd .au .aob .als .cda .dss
OptimFrog	.ofr .ofs
Tracker	.it .mo3 .mod .mtm .s3m .umx .xm
Supported video formats (within a container)	FourCC
H.264/AVC	H264, AVC1, X264, CCV1, xalg, avlg
H.265/HEVC	HEVC, HVC1, HM10, H265
H.266/VVC	VVC1
AV1	AV01
MPEG-1	MPEG, MPG1
MPEG-2	MPG2
MPEG-4/DivX/Xvid	DIVX, DX50, XVID, MP4V, 3IVX, BLZ0, MPG3, DIV3, DIV4, DIV5, DIV6, 3IV1, 3IV2, FMP4, MP4S, M4S2, DVX3, SEDG, SMP4, DXGM
VC-1	WVC1, WMVA, WVP2
Windows Media Video	WMV1, WMV2, WMV3, WMVP
MP41	MP41, MPG4, DIV1
MP42	MP42, DIV2
MP43	MP43, MPG3, DIV3, DIV4, DIV5, DIV6, DVX3, 3IVD
H.261	H261, M261
H.263	H263, S263
Flash Video (H.263)	FLV1
Flash Video (VP6)	FLV4, VP6F, FSV1
Theora	THEO
VP3	VP31
VP5	VP50
VP6	VP60, VP61, VP62, VP6A
VP7	VP70
VP8	VP80
VP9	VP90
Huffyuv	HFYU, FFVH
MJPEG	MJPG, AVRN, AMVV, AMVF, LJPG, JPGL, MJLS, MJPA, MJPB, SP5X
Sorenson Video 1	SVQ1
Sorenson Video 3	SVQ3
Digital Video	DVSD, CDVC, CDV5, DV25, DV50, CDVH, DVCP, DV5P, DV5N, DVPP, DVC, DVH1, DVH2, DVH3, DVH4, DVH5, DVH6, DVHQ, DVHP, AVdv, AVd1
QuickTime Planar RGB	8BPS
QuickTime Animation	QRLE
QuickTime RPZA	RPZA
QuickTime SMC	smc
FFV1	FFV1
Camstudio	CSCD
CorePNG	PNG1, MPNG
LOCO	LOCO
LCL Lossless Codec Library	MSZH
TechSmith Camtasia	TSCC
ZLIB Lossless Codec Library	ZLIB
Zip Motion Blocks Video	ZMVB
Autodesc RLE	AASC
ATI VCR1	VCR1
Cinepak	CVID
Intel Indeo 2	RT21
Intel Indeo 3	IV31, IV32
Intel Indeo 4	IV41
Intel Indeo 5	IV50
Intel H.263	I263
Fraps	FPS1
MS Video 1	CRAM, MSVC, WHAM
MS RLE	MRLE
Q-Team QPEG	QPEG, QP10, QP11
RealVideo	RV10, RV20, RV30, RV40
Truemotion 1/2	DUCK, TM20
Dirac	DRAC
Lagarith	LAGS
ProRes	APCH, APCN, APCS, APCO, AP4H, AP4X
utVideo	ULRA, ULRG, ULY0, ULY2, ULY4, UQY2, UQRG, UQRA, ULH0, ULH2, ULH4, UMY2, UMH2, UMY4, UMH4, UMRG, UMRA
DNxHD	AVdn
DNxHR (partial)	AVdh
VMware video	VMnc
JPEG2000 DCinema	MJP2, MJ2C, LJ2C, LJ2K, IPJ2
BINK video	BIKI, BIKB
Smacker video	SMK2, SMK4
GoToMeeting	G2M2, G2M3, G2M4, G2M5
Apple Intermediate Codec	ICOD
GeoVision	GEOV
Miro VideoXL	VIXL
Ultimotion	ULTI
ASUS v1/v2	ASV1, ASV2
Creative YUV	CYUV
Winnov v1	WNV1
Mirillis FIC	FICV
Cineform HD (partial)	CFHD
MagicYUV	MAGY, M8RG, M8RA, M8G0, M8Y0, M8Y2, M8Y4, M8YA
Hap	Hap1, Hap5, HapY
DXV	DXD3, DXDI
Motion Decoder	MDEC
4XM video	4XMV
Gryphon's Anim Compressor	ARBC
Canopus HQ	CUVC
Supported audio formats (within a container)	AudioTag or FourCC
MP3	55, 85
MP2	80
MP1
AC3 (Dolby Digital)	2000, 8192
E-AC3 (Dolby Digital Plus)	EAC3
DTS	2001
DTS-HD (Master Audio / HRA)
DTS-ES
DTS Express (LBR)
Dolby TrueHD/MLP	DTSH, MLP
AAC	00FF, 01FF, MP4A, RACP
LPCM	LPCM
Vorbis	26447, 674F
FLAC	f1ac
WavPack	5756
Musepack
AMR	FE, samr
True Audio	77a1
MPEG-4 ALS
Microsoft ADPCM	2, 17
IMA ADPCM	11, 61, 62, AMVA
Creative ADPCM	200
G.711 (A-law / Mu-law)	7, 6c75, ALAW, ULAW
G.726	45
G.729	G729, 729A
MS GSM	49
TrueSpeech	22
QDM2	QDM2
MACE	MAC3, MAC6
RealAudio 1/2	14_4, 28_8
RealAudio Lossless	RALF
Cook	COOK
Sipr	SIPR
Intel Music Coder (IMC)	401
ATRAC 1/3/3+	ATRC, 270
Nellymoser	NELL
WMA v1	160
WMA v2	161
WMA Pro	162
WMA Lossless	163
DivX WMA	353
Speex	A109
S302M	AES3
Voware Metasound	RT29
Various other formats	TWOS, SOWT
Video encoding (VFW)	Works only in applications that use VFW codecs
MPEG-4 (Xvid)
H.264 (x264VFW)
Lagarith
Huffyuv
Audio encoding (ACM)	Works only in applications that use ACM codecs
MP3
AC3
Green = supported Red = not supported		B A S I C	S T A N D A R D	F U L L	M E G A