

If that is issue for you choose Corporate pack and study all components before using it.K-Lite Codec Pack facilitates installing needed codecs to play audio and video files. They seem to ended this practice long ago and all such components I am aware off are removed… Still video codecs may be very unstable legal zone. K-Lite has quite a history of including proprietary and cracked versions of codecs into bundle.

Basically such player contains bundle of codecs (often same as codec packs) but instead of installing them into system it keeps them close and personal.Īdvantages of all-in-one player - they are often portable in design and don’t interact with system files at all.Īdvantages of codec pack - works for any application or player of your choice. Video players that play everything are becoming popular lately. I was recommended to get all-in-one video player instead? If you want to stick with your current video player you may go for “Playback only (without player)”. This will also install Media Player Classic and set file associations to it. This gets you what you need without what you don’t. I advise to go for Full and choose “Playback only” profile while installing.

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.
