K-Lite Codec Pack Full - advanced version that includes all bells and whistles.K-Lite Codec Pack Standard - basic version for playing popular formats.It is supposed to be easy but I see whole bunch of these?
Some codecs come with Windows, some have to be downloaded and installed.Ĭodec pack is bundle of different codecs that aims to install everything needed for playing most common video formats. What a codec pack is?Ĭodec ( coder- decoder) is something you need to play video. I am using K-Lite Codec Pack for a long time and I never had issues with it (some minor but those were solved by updating to newest version).
:)Īs always I am sticking to tried and true solution. Solutions to this problem are abundant and stir holy wars second in fierceness only to “Vista sucks” issue. Codec - something you never knew you needed until your videos started to play upside down and with green stripes.Ĭurrent situation with video codecs (mpeg4, DivX, XviD, h264, Theora) and containers (avi, mp4, mkv, ogm, wmv) is a mess.