Codec pack for Windows 7?

ebilcake · 15 Aug 2009 at 20:31

Any recommendations?

Normally use CCCP but it's kind of old now.

hideki · 15 Aug 2009 at 20:47

Win7 codec pack by shark007.

Memphis · 15 Aug 2009 at 21:46

hideki said:
Win7 codec pack by shark007.

This, and only this.

dbmzk1 · 16 Aug 2009 at 00:05

Forget codec packs.

Get this http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

Rainmaker · 16 Aug 2009 at 03:47

K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack is designed for Windows up to and including Win7. It works flawlessly and sets up DXVA for MPCHC automatically so you're not stuck with WMP (or else a rather complex self-setup) for DXVA. Like Shark007's pack, it has an x64 pack component too. Runs without a hitch here.

Aod · 16 Aug 2009 at 03:50

hideki said:
Win7 codec pack by shark007.

Memphis said:
This, and only this.

i had issues with Shark's pack and my media player of choice, MPC-HC, and i had to start using KM player instead.

Specifically, i couldn't get the shark-codecs to work with anything other than media player, and thus i was stuck with the default CPU-rendering for MPC-HC and everything looked like crap.

still, KM-player's awesome - never need to worry about codec's again!

Moredhel · 16 Aug 2009 at 12:29

I've not used a codec pack in years. I install MPC-HC (which comes with FFDShow based filters) I then add coreavc for h.264 playback and ac3filter for amazing audio decoding. That's all you need. If you want ffdshow based filters for other apps than MPC you can install the ffdshow tryouts instead of using the built in MPC-HC ones.

But that combination should play just about anything other than real.

dbmzk1 · 16 Aug 2009 at 13:42

Moredhel said:
I've not used a codec pack in years. I install MPC-HC (which comes with FFDShow based filters) I then add coreavc for h.264 playback and ac3filter for amazing audio decoding. That's all you need. If you want ffdshow based filters for other apps than MPC you can install the ffdshow tryouts instead of using the built in MPC-HC ones.

But that combination should play just about anything other than real.

Someone else with sense

bledd · 16 Aug 2009 at 14:12

dbmzk1 said:
Forget codec packs.

Get this http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

yeah, it's good until you want media centre.....

shark's codec pack is a clean codec pack, use that

scruffeh · 16 Aug 2009 at 18:31

I used to like CCCP, current version seems to crash explorer a lot in Vista and 7. I've given up on packs now

Moredhel · 16 Aug 2009 at 18:53

bledd. said:
yeah, it's good until you want media centre.....

shark's codec pack is a clean codec pack, use that

See my above post, install the FFDshow Tryouts as well as ac3filter and core avc and you can play absolutely everything in anything that can handle video for windows filters. That includes Windows Media Player and Media Center.