Media Foundation Codecs For Windows 10 and 11

These codecs are for example used by the following applications:

• Movies&TV / Films&TV
• Windows Media Player (legacy) (can also use DirectShow codecs)
• Windows Media Player (new Windows 11 version)
• Windows Photo Viewer
• Windows Explorer (for thumbnails)
• Adobe Premiere
• Vegas Pro
• DeoVR

Below you can download installers for several codecs. You can also get these exact same codecs in the Microsoft Store.

These codecs may fix:
Error 0xc00d005212 This item was encoded with a format that's not supported

HEVC video (a.k.a. H.265):

There are two versions of this codec. A free one and one that you can buy from Microsoft for $1 in the Microsoft store. The free version only works on systems that have a graphics card (GPU) that is capable of hardware accelerated decoding of HEVC video.

Download [for 64-bit Windows] [free version] [requires a GPU capable of decoding HEVC]
Download [for 32-bit Windows] [free version] [requires a GPU capable of decoding HEVC]

Download in Microsoft Store [$1]

VP9 video:

Download [for 64-bit Windows]
Download [for 32-bit Windows]
Microsoft Store

Aomedia AV1 video:

Download [for 64-bit Windows]
Download [for 32-bit Windows]
Microsoft Store

MPEG-2 video:

Download [for 64-bit Windows]
Download [for 32-bit Windows]
Microsoft Store

HEIF/HEIC image:

Download [for 64-bit Windows]
Download [for 32-bit Windows]
Microsoft Store

Webp image:

Download [for 64-bit Windows]
Download [for 32-bit Windows]
Microsoft Store

Raw image extension:

Microsoft Store

Web media extensions (ogg/vorbis/theora):

Microsoft Store

Installation

You can install these Media Foundation codecs by simply double-clicking on the downloaded .appx file.

Uninstallation

You can uninstall these codecs via Windows Settings. Same way as you uninstall other items downloaded from the Microsoft store.

Media Feature Pack

If you have a European N or Korean KN edition of Windows then you should also install the Media Feature Pack from Microsoft to gain additional multimedia functionality.

You can recognize these special versions of Windows by the fact that they do no include Windows Media Player by default.

You can acquire this media package through Windows settings:
Start > Settings > Apps > Apps & Features > Optional Features > Add a feature > Media Feature Pack