Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a pack with the most popular codecs so you won’t ever miss out on any multimedia content.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is designed to assign the best filter and decoder to each type of file to play it.
The utilities that Windows Essentials Codec Pack’s installs on your computer include:
- APE Source filter: DirectShow decoder for handling APE files.
- AC3 filter: DirectShow filter used for audio and film tracks;
- AVI Splitter: can open corrupt AVI files;
- CDDA Reader filter: DirectShow decoder for reading audio CDs;
- CDXA Reader filter: DirectShow decoder for reading VCDs and XCDs;
- CoreAAC filter: filter for ACC files;
- CoreFlac decoder: DirectShow decoder for the FLAC audio codec;
- FFDShow: filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and other video and audio formats.
