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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/NT
- Date added: January 26, 2009
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From MediaCodec :Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video DirectShow codecs and filters. With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music files that you download off the Internet, stay up to date with the latest codecs with the Audio/Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many conflicts and errors caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly near complete solution for all your video and audio needs, with it you can play audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, and XCDs on the fly, and it adds support for 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, and UMX formats so you could play any video/audio file with your favorite DirectShow media player or with the (included) Media Player Classic.
Version 2.1 includes many critical bug fixes and feature enhancement including: fixed Vista crash bug, fixed buffer overflow vulnerability, fixed auto-update service, added support for E-AC3, DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD and MLP decoding, and added enhanced audio / video rendering and quality filters.
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Version 2.1 includes many critical bug fixes and feature enhancement including: fixed Vista crash bug, fixed buffer overflow vulnerability, fixed auto-update service, added support for E-AC3, DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD and MLP decoding, and added enhanced audio / video rendering and quality filters.
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Version: Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack 2.1
Pros: none, none
Cons: Windows Media Player would not play audio on certain files, and would not play some files at all.
Summary: it did not work
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