Windows Essentials Codec Pack 5.0
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A useful tool to enhance the audio and video playback capabilities on your Windows PC
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Developer
mediacodec.org
Updated
Jun 12, 2014
Size
10.98 MB
Version
5.0
Requirements
Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 PC
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The Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a free and comprehensive collection of audio and video codecs and filters for Microsoft Windows PC. It is designed to enable playback of a wide range of audio and video file formats, including popular formats such as AVI, MP4, and WMV.

The Windows Essentials Codec Pack includes a range of advanced features, such as support for hardware acceleration, high-quality playback, and customization of audio and video settings. It also includes a range of additional tools, such as Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which is a lightweight media player that supports a wide range of formats.

Windows Essentials Codec Pack Latest Version 5.0 Update

LAV Splitter
Fixed: The filtered Forced Subtitles stream did not properly send all related subtitle data in some cases
LAV Video
NEW: Implemented a WMV9 MFT decoder to replace the old DMO decoder for VC-1/WMV3 on Windows 7 and above
NEW: Support for VP7 video
Fixed: Multi-threaded video decoding could result in a handle leak on some systems
Fixed: Video processing was slow on Windows XP due to inefficient memcpy use
Fixed: DVD subtitles could overlap on some discs
LAV Audio
Fixed: Dynamic format switching to an audio stream with a different sample rate did not work in some cases

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