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Media Player Codec Pack Lite

Key Details of Media Player Codec Pack Lite

  • Play various types of video and audio files
  • Last updated on 01/20/23
  • There has been 1 update within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 3 flags on VirusTotal badge_icon
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Developer's Description

Media Player Codec Pack Lite is a free simple to install, light weight package of codecs, filters, or splitters used for playing back movie and music files. After installation you will be able to play 99.9% of files through your media player. Additional file associations are applied to make Windows Media Player play BDMV (unencrypted BluRay/AVCHD), EVO (unencrypted HD-DVD) NOTE: BluRay and HD-DVD playback is basic and requires compatible hardware, MKV, M2TS, MP4, VOB, OGM, WEBM, FLV, and NUV movie files, as well as AC3, DTS, FLAC, APE, OGG, WV, TTA, OFR, SHN music files, and finally MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, and UMX tracker audio files. Compression types supported include AVC, H.264, x264, H.263, H.261, DivX, XviD, Flash Video, VP3-8, Morgan JPEG, MJPEG, MPEG4, MPEG2

The package detects the best proof tested settings with additional options for CPU, GPU, and DXVA compatibility. Audio options during install allow users to set output from basic 2.0 channel stereo, right up to 7.1 channel output. Digital audio S/PDIF / HDMI passthrough for home theatre systems can be set by the user to output Dolby Digital AC3, Dolby Digital Plus E-AC3, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD, even multichannel non-AC3/DTS audio (for example 5.1 channel FLAC) can be set to encode as AC3 and output to digital S/PDIF / HDMI. Please note that protected formats may require a specific player. Windows Media Player is supported as well as most other players. The package supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 4.5.8.310

Fixes and improvements.

General

Release January 20, 2023
Date Added January 20, 2023
Version 4.5.8.310

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows 11, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7
Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 245,549
Downloads Last Week 12
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