Freeware Descriptions:

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

Here is complete features (taken from authors site):
The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

  • It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
  • It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
  • It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn´t contain any conflicting codecs.
  • It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.
  • There are 3 packages available: Basic, Standard, and Full.

This Standard Pack contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.

What’s New in version 4.8.5:

  • Updated ffdshow to revision 2954
  • Updated MediaInfo Lite to version 0.7.15
  • Added the ability to easily change the preferred splitter for AVI/MP4/MOV/HDMOV/3GP files
  • Minor changes

File Size / OS:

  • 7.01 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista

Download K-Lite Codec Pack Standard 4.8.5: