General

Comparison of abilities
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In the table below you can view which audio, video, and file formats the K-Lite Codec Pack supports. As you can see,
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even the smallest pack already supports playback of almost everything!
Guides
The difference between the packs lies mostly in the included tools. If you want to know more about the difference in
contents of packs, then have a look at the comparison of contents page.
Support
You might think that a lot of codecs are needed to support this large list of formats. But that is not the case. The
Forum codec pack uses just a handfull of DirectShow filters.

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DVD and Blu-ray Notes
Overview
Works only if the content is decrypted!
Blu-ray playback
VLC Player (tip: Passkey Lite, AnyDVD HD)
DVD playback in MPC-HC
Windows Media Codecs
Windows XP: requires DScaler5 (included in Full and Mega)
Windows Vista/7: works with all variants of the codec pack
DVD playback in WMP Windows 8: requires Media Center Add-On
Windows 10: WMP does not support DVD playback

VCD, SVCD and XCD Note: requires using MPC-HC

DTS audio CD Note: requires using MPC-HC
Supported video
File extensions
containers
AVI .avi .divx .amv
MPEG-PS .mpg .mpeg .mpe .m1v .m2v .mpv2 .mp2v .m2p .vob .evo .mod
MPEG-TS .ts .m2ts .m2t .mts .pva .tp .tpr
MP4 .mp4 .m4v .mp4v .mpv4 .hdmov
MOV .mov
3GP .3gp .3gpp .3g2 .3gp2
Matroska / WebM .mkv .webm
Ogg .ogm .ogv
Flash Video .flv .f4v
Windows Media .wmv
RealMedia .rmvb .rm
Digital Video .dv
Material Exchange Format .mxf
Supported audio files File extensions
MP3 .mp3
Ogg .ogg .oga
Matroska .mka
MPEG-4 Audio .m4a .aac
FLAC .flac
WavPack .wv
Musepack .mpc
Monkey's Audio .ape
Apple Lossless Audio Codec .alac
AMR .amr
True Audio .tta
AC3 .ac3
DTS .dts
RealMedia .ra
Opus .opus
Speex .spx
AIFF .aif .aiff .aifc
CoreAudio Format .caf
TAK .tak
Shorten .shr
OptimFrog .ofr .ofs
Tracker .it .mo3 .mtm .s3m .umx .xm
Supported video formats FourCC
(within a container)
H.264/AVC H264, AVC1, X264, CCV1, xalg
H.265/HEVC HEVC, HVC1, HM10
MPEG-1 MPEG, MPG1
MPEG-2 MPG2
MPEG-4/DivX/Xvid DIVX, DX50, XVID, MP4V, 3IVX, BLZ0, MPG3, DIV3, DIV4, DIV5,
DIV6, 3IV1, 3IV2, FMP4, MP4S, M4S2, DVX3, SEDG, SMP4
VC-1 WVC1, WMVA
MP41 MP41, MPG4, DIV1
MP42 MP42, DIV2
MP43 MP43
H.261 H261, M261
H.263 H263, S263
Flash Video (H.263) FLV1
Flash Video (VP6) FLV4, VP6F, FSV1
Theora THEO
VP3 VP31
VP5 VP50
VP6 VP60, VP61, VP62, VP6A
VP7 VP70
VP8 VP80
VP9 VP90
Huffyuv HFYU, FFVH
MJPEG MJPG, AVRN, AMVV, AMVF, LJPG, JPGL, MJLS, MJPA, MJPB, SP5X
Sorenson Video 1 SVQ1
Sorenson Video 3 SVQ3
Digital Video DVSD, DV25, DV50, CDVH, DVCP, DV5P, DV5N, DVPP, DVC, DVH1,
DVH2, DVH3, DVH4, DVH5, DVH6, DVHQ, DVHP, AVdv, AVd1, CDVC,
CDV5, (DVIS, PDVC)

QuickTime Planar RGB 8BPS

QuickTime Animation QRLE
QuickTime RPZA RPZA
QuickTime SMC smc
FFV1 FFV1
Camstudio CSCD
CorePNG PNG1, MPNG
LOCO LOCO
LCL Lossless Codec Library MSZH
TechSmith Camtasia TSCC
ZLIB Lossless Codec Library ZLIB
Zip Motion Blocks Video ZMVB
Autodesc RLE AASC
ATI VCR1 VCR1
Cinepak CVID
Intel Indeo 2 RT21
Intel Indeo 3 IV31, IV32
Intel Indeo 4 IV41
Intel Indeo 5 IV50
Intel H.263 I263
Fraps FPS1
MS Video 1 CRAM, MSVC, WHAM
MS RLE MRLE
Q-Team QPEG QPEG, QP10, QP11
RealVideo RV10, RV20, RV30, RV40
Truemotion 1/2 DUCK, TM20
Dirac DRAC
Lagarith LAGS
ProRes APCH, APCN, APCS, APCO, AP4H
ULRA, ULRG, ULY0, ULY2, ULY4, UQY2, UQRG, UQRA, ULH0, ULH2,
utVideo
ULH4, UMY2, UMH2, UMY4, UMH4, UMRG, UMRA
DNxHD AVdn
DNxHR (partial) AVdh
VMware video VMnc
JPEG2000 DCinema MJP2, MJ2C, LJ2C, LJ2K, IPJ2
BINK video BIKI, BIKB
Smacker video SMK2, SMK4
GoToMeeting G2M2, G2M3, G2M4, G2M5
Apple Intermediate Codec ICOD
GeoVision GEOV
Miro VideoXL VIXL
Ultimotion ULTI
ASUS v1/v2 ASV1, ASV2
Creative YUV CYUV
Winnov v1 WNV1
Mirillis FIC FICV
Cineform HD (partial) CFHD
MagicYUV MAGY, M8RG, M8RA, M8G0, M8Y0, M8Y2, M8Y4, M8YA
Hap Hap1, Hap5, HapY
DXV DXD3, DXDI
Motion Decoder MDEC
4XM video 4XMV
Gryphon's Anim
ARBC
Compressor
Supported audio formats AudioTag/FourCC
(within a container)
MP3 55, 85
MP2 80
MP1
AC3 (Dolby Digital) 2000, 8192
E-AC3 (Dolby Digital Plus) EAC3
DTS 2001
DTS-HD (Master Audio /
HRA)
DTS-ES
DTS Express (LBR)
Dolby TrueHD/MLP DTSH, MLP

AAC 00FF, 01FF, MP4A

LPCM LPCM
Vorbis 26447, 674F
FLAC f1ac
WavPack 5756
Musepack
AMR FE, samr
True Audio 77a1
MPEG-4 ALS
Microsoft ADPCM 2, 17
IMA ADPCM 11, 61, 62, AMVA
Creative ADPCM 200
G.726 45
G.711 (A-law / Mu-law) 7, 6c75, ALAW, ULAW
MS GSM 49
TrueSpeech 22
QDM2 QDM2
MACE MAC3, MAC6
RealAudio 1/2 14_4, 28_8
RealAudio Lossless RALF
Cook COOK
Sipr SIPR
Intel Music Coder (IMC) 401
ATRAC 1/3/3+ ATRC, 270
Nellymoser NELL
WMA v1 160
WMA v2 161
WMA Pro 162
WMA Lossless 163
DivX WMA 353
Speex A109
S302M AES3
G.729 729A
Video encoding (VFW)
MPEG-4 (Xvid)
H.264 (x264VFW)
Lagarith
Huffyuv
Audio encoding (ACM)
MP3
AC3
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