Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of the most essential 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 error caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types. W.E.C.P. 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, UMX and many more formats so you could play any video / audio file with your favorite DirectShow media player or with the (included) free and wonderful Media Player Classic.
Rated 20/50 by c4p0ne at Feb 20, 2008
I'll stick with Vista Codec Pack.
Rated 50/50 by mediacodec at Feb 3, 2009
Excellent codec pack, got all my vids playing right, I've used it on my media center and now I can watch all my downloads on my TV
Rated 10/50 by roberttucker at Feb 25, 2009
All stay with VideoLAN Media Player it plays all :)
Rated 50/50 by trianajenn1234 at Mar 21, 2010
this i a very good 1st attempt
Rated 30/50 by trents at Nov 24, 2010
HI, This could be great and thanks for the information that you shared with us here.. I'm a newbie in this forum site....
Rated 50/50 by viperiii at May 14, 2011
FInd the best compatibility with your system and improve the overall playback, i would expect the "real codec" to be included in the future. Nice attempt, keep it up!
Rated 40/50 by cindylove141 at Aug 19, 2011
Nice job.This codec pack did a good job in organizing all the codecs.