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K-Lite Codec

Your source for quality codecs

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There are four different variants of the K-Lite Codec . Ranging from a very small bundle that contains only the most essential decoders to a large and more comprehensive bundle. The global differences between the variants can be found below. Detailed differences can be found on the comparison of abilities and comparison of contents pages.

These codec packs are compatible with Windows 7/8.x/10/11. Old versions also with XP/Vista.
The packs include both 32-bit and 64-bit codecs, so they work great on both x86 and x64 variants of Windows!

Standard

Small but extremely powerful package for audio and video playback

This contains everything you need to play all common audio and video file formats.

Supports playback of for example:

  • AVI, MKV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, MOV, TS, M2TS, WMV, RM, RMVB, OGM, WebM
  • MP3, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, 3GP, AMR, APE, MKA, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack
  • DVD and Blu-ray (after decryption)
  • and many more audio and video formats!

Provides lots of useful functionality, such as:

  • HDR video playback
  • Subtitle display
  • Hardware accelerated video decoding
  • Audio bitstreaming
  • Video thumbnails in Explorer
  • File association options
  • Broken codec detection
  • and much more!

This package includes Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC). This is a very advanced player for high quality playback. It provides many options and useful features. We recommend that you use this player.

Installation of the player is of course optional, just like every other component in the installer can be disabled if desired. So you can also use the K-Lite Codec Pack with any other player that is compatible with DirectShow codecs.

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Contents

Changelog

Full

Same as Standard, plus:

  • MadVR
    An advanced video renderer with high quality upscaling algorithms.
  • Plugin for 3D video decoding (H.264 MVC)
    Note: this requires using MPC-HC with madVR, and also a compatible graphics driver. Recent NVIDIA drivers no longer support 3D video (but you could try "3D Fix Manager").

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Contents

Changelog