Have you ever had problems viewing movies clips downloaded from the internet or forwarded by your friends through email?
Can be very frustrating when your friend describes the attachment as “MUST WATCH” but you just couldn’t thinking there might be something wrong with your computer.

Mostly it is caused by not having the correct codec to play the movie clips.
Codec means Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video.
Since there are so many types of codecs, you wouldn’t know which to install and maybe installing the too many and wrongly configuring it will make your system unstable.

Introducing, K-Lite Codec Pack.
K-Lite Codec Pack
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. 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.
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’s easy to make an unattended installation.
  • It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn’t contain any conflicting codecs. It tries to avoid potential problems with existing codecs and even fixes some problems
  • It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies
  • There are different packages. From small to extra-large

    • There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: Basic, Standard and Full.
    Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats. It is small enough to fit on a single floppy. Also great for including on your movie cds.
    Standard contains everything you need to play all the most commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
    Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.
    There also is a Mega version. It includes everything that the Full version has, plus some extra things, like support for QuickTime and RealMedia files.

    Works on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. Works on my computer as well and should work on yours ;)

    [ K-Lite Codec Website | Download K-Lite Codec ]