Current releases introduce 3D
decoding of files, ISO's and disks.
Although a separate 64bit installer is being maintained for your convenience,
UHD / H265 / HEVC / MVC, H264 codecs are available to
all players.
The following
quotations are from a person with vast multimedia experience.
K-Lite blatantly
installs MALWARE.
3D decoding is reported by
LAV Video as, Active Decoder: msdk mvc
this gets installed by the 32bit installer on all 64bit systems.
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SETUP AND USAGE
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"I'd suspect that if I put it to the test I'd find
that K-Lite, for example, had done more damage (as measured by crash
reports) than some notable percentage of actual outright malware."
"At one point 7 of the top 10
crashes in multimedia on Windows lead squarely to problems induced
by K-Lite."
"...the fact remains that they
(K-Lite) have been one of the most toxic projects ever released for
Windows in any form."
The above quotations encapsulate what prompted me to produce
my own codec packs.
According to the K-Lite author, if malware got installed, it is your
own fault!
Things the Shark pack does that other packs cannot do . . .
1. Full color thumbnails including FLV's and 10bit
MKV's.
(also allows users to select at what point by percentage to grab the
thumbnail)
2. Enable the Preview Pane for ALL newly enabled
filetypes such as MKV and FLV.
3. Explorer properties are displayed for non native
filetypes such as MKV and FLV
4. Updated often - and has update notification
builtin
5. Allow use of the PowerDVD decoders for 32bit
LiveTV in Media Center.
6.
Support playback of MKV files on Extenders and
on the Xbox One.
7. Support use of the LAV filters with the Play To function for MKV files.
8. Support playback of MOD audio files and M4A
files containing ALAC
9. Supports playlist creation for use in Media
Center
10. Allow users to Enable/Disable codecs installed
on their system
11. Functionality such as Win7DSFilterTweaker
builtin.
12. Support 'Add to Windows Media Player List'
using rightclick on all files such as MKV.
If you decide to choose the x64 version of Windows Media Player as your
default player,
Windows Explorer will automatically differentiate between the 2 media
players as depicted below.
The Settings Application is 100% UAC compliant.
Restricted access is enforced. (User Account
Control)
The Application allows each user to maintain individual codec settings while at
the same time seamlessly integrating any administrative commands directly
into the users account. New users accounts are detected upon opening the
Application and automatically inherit the Administrators settings.
Adding files to the Windows Media Player Playlist
On the Help TAB of the Settings Application is a button to allow you to choose Windows Media Player Filetype Associations. This buttons functionality is GLOBAL and is not restricted to the 32bit environment. Once you have used this button, you can Enqueue newly associated filetypes to the Windows Media Player Playlist as depicted below. It also sets up Media Center to utilize the associations for seamless playback in that player also. If for some reason this doesn't work for you, go back to the associations button, click No twice, consecutively, then select Yes. No reboot is required.
This
will also work for audio files such as FLAC, APE or musepack.
ADVANCED x64Components download v7.8.9:
distribution file information: MajorGeeks
receives the distribution file directly from me.
It is currently 25.1MB and has an MD5 of 0c722665d4509f106fe4934adf940ab9
notable updates (current):
- update
LAV filters 0.70.2.7
- update
MPC-BE filters 1.5.1.2732
- update
MediaInfo DLL 7.97
- update
Icaros 3.0.2B2
- support for the
Alliance for Open Media
(AV1 video playback and thumbnails)
- fully support 3D playback - see
Setup and usage
for more info
UPGRADE installations are fully functional! (but not
recommended)
If you are upgrading to solve an issue, I suggest that you UNINSTALL the old
version
The STANDARD release only contains LAV filters and VSFilter for subtitles.
STANDARD x64Components download v5.2.9:
distribution file information: MajorGeeks
receives the distribution file directly from me.
It is currently 16.5MB and has an MD5 of 9e8c8bb76b39bb1ef4b950774a710b89
notable updates (current):
- update
LAV filters 0.70.2.7
- update
MediaInfo DLL 7.97 (official release)
- update
Icaros 3.0.2B2 (official release)
- support for the
Alliance for Open Media
(AV1 video playback and thumbnails)
- fully support 3D playback - see
Setup and usage
for more info
UPGRADE installations are fully functional! (but not
recommended)
If you are upgrading to solve an issue, I suggest that you UNINSTALL the old
version
This software uses code of FFmpeg licensed under the GPLv2.0 and its source can be downloaded
