Media Player Codec Pack Review
The Media Player Codec Pack is a free and easy to install bundle of audio/video codecs, filters and splitters. The package contains everything you need to play nearly all audio and video formats including divx, xvid, ac3, mkv, flv, mpeg, wav, ogg, realvideo, dvd, blu-ray and more. The installer offers the option of a simple installation or a detailed one and includes no bloatware or malware.
Codec is a small software application which allows Windows and other applications to decode or encode video or audio data. The word is a portmanteau of “compressor-decompressor”.
Many media players are embedded with only limited set of codecs to support certain video audio file formats. For example, an AVI file might contain data compressed by any number of codecs such as DivX, xvid or hevc and also uncompressed data. In such cases the only way to know which codecs you need is to check if your system has all the required codecs installed.
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a comprehensive and easy to use set of tools that will allow you to play all your audio/video files, even those which your original media player does not support. It is a highly recommended tool and it does not have any bloatware or spyware in it. This free and efficient codec pack has been downloaded over 1,074,578 times as of October 2009 and received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars from only 87 reviews.