Comparison of abilitiesIn 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, AnyDVD HD) | | | | | 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 | | | | | MP4 | .mp4 .m4v .mp4v .mpv4 .hdmov | | | | | MOV | .mov | | | | | 3GP | .3gp .3gpp .3g2 .3gp2 | | | | | Matroska / WebM | .mkv .webm | | | | | Ogg | .ogm .ogv | | | | | Flash Video | .flv .f4v | | | | | Windows Media | .wmv .asf | | | | | RealMedia | .rmvb .rm | | | | | Digital Video | .dv | | | | | Material Exchange Format | .mxf | | | | | DHAV | .dav | | | | | 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 | | | | | RealMedia | .ra | | | | | Opus | .opus | | | | | Speex | .spx | | | | | AIFF | .aif .aiff .aifc | | | | | CoreAudio Format | .caf | | | | | TAK | .tak | | | | | Shorten | .shr | | | | | OptimFrog | .ofr .ofs | | | | | Tracker | .it .mo3 .mtm .s3m .umx .xm | | | | | Supported video formats (within a container) | FourCC | | H.264/AVC | H264, AVC1, X264, CCV1, xalg | | | | | H.265/HEVC | HEVC, HVC1, HM10 | | | | | 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 | | | | | VC-1 | WVC1, WMVA | | | | | MP41 | MP41, MPG4, DIV1 | | | | | MP42 | MP42, DIV2 | | | | | MP43 | MP43 | | | | | 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, DV25, DV50, CDVH, DVCP, DV5P, DV5N, DVPP, DVC, DVH1, DVH2, DVH3, DVH4, DVH5, DVH6, DVHQ, DVHP, AVdv, AVd1, CDVC, CDV5, (DVIS, PDVC) | | | | | 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 | | | | | Supported audio formats (within a container) | AudioTag/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 | | | | | 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.726 | 45 | | | | | G.711 (A-law / Mu-law) | 7, 6c75, ALAW, ULAW | | | | | 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 | | | | | G.729 | 729A | | | | | 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 |
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