K-Lite Codec Pack 15.9.5 Complete

To be able to play media, audio or video files on your computer, you need some files called encoders. What? Still do not know what an encoder is? Well, it is a program capable of encoding or decoding digital signals. Applies to multimedia files, it is one utility used by a player to view video and audio.

Play media files without compatibility issues.

These encoders are usually built into media players, but this may be due to a lack of updates or because you are trying to play some form of format that is not very popular, that you may have problems opening the videos properly. You can avoid these problems if you resort K-Lite Codec package, one complete package of encoders, DirectShow filters and tools that will help you play any audiovisual content smoothly on your computer, whether it is Windows 7 or 10 32 or 64-bit.

Main characteristics

• Allows you to play the most popular video formats such as AVI, MP4, MKV, FLV, OGM, MOV, MPEG, MOV, HDMOV, TS, M2TS and OGG.
• Ability to configure all decoders thanks to Codec Tweak tool.
• Links formats to programs for playing these files.
• Content carefully selected by a team of experts.
• Compatible with major media players: Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center, Media Player Classic, ZoomPlayer, PotPlayer, GOM Player …
• Compatible with Windows XP operating systems from now on.
• Encoders for 32 and 64-bit systems.
• Customizable installation.
• Includes Classic Player Homecinema Media Player.
• Supports subtitles.
• Compatible with DVD and Blu-ray playback.

And while it focuses primarily on video playback, it also offers one wide range of encoders for playing audio files in different formats: MP3, FLAC, OGG, MPC, APE, M4A…

Which one is the best; MPC-HC or VLC Player?

The truth is that there are very few programs that can be compared to VLC Player. However, the media player included in K-Lite is quite a worthy opponent. To that end, it offers several different features, such as faster file uploads, improved support for MKV files, and more hardware acceleration options.

We are talking about the full version of this encoder package, but there are three other versions:

• K-Lite Codec Basic: contains everything you need to play regular video files. It will meet the needs of any user playing shared video files.
• K-Lite standard: contains additional features such as the built-in MPC player.
• K-Lite Mega: is the most powerful and complete version. It offers all the features of the full version but comes with VFW / ACM encoders for video encoding and editing.

So which is better? Mega or Full? Easy: they are both great encoder packs, but if you are not going to encode and edit videos, you will not know how to make the most of the Mega version.

What about an Android smartphone and tablet version?

Kids at K-Lite have not released any official APK for Android mobile devices. There are other applications that have made the most of their name and popularity for publishing encoder packages on Google Play, but do not belong to this developer.

What’s new in the latest version

• Updates MPC-HC to version 1.9.8.47.
• Updates LAV filters to version 0.74.1-90-gb7d7f.