The Media Player Codec Pack is a free simple to install package of codecs/filters/splitters used for playing back movie and music files. After installation you will be able to play 99.9% of files through your media player, along with XCDs, VCDs, SVCDs, and DVDs.
Additional file associations are applied to make Windows Media Player play BDMV (unencrypted BluRay/AVCHD), EVO (unencrypted HD-DVD), MKV, M2TS, MP4, VOB, OGM, WEBM, FLV, and NUV movie files, as well as AC3, DTS, FLAC, APE, OGG, WV, TTA, OFR, SHN music files, and finally MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, and UMX tracker audio files. Compression types supported include AVC, H.264, x264, H.263, H.261, DivX, XviD, Flash Video, VP3-8, Morgan JPEG, MJPEG, MPEG4, MPEG2, along with many more.
The package detects the best proof tested settings with additional options for CPU, GPU, and DXVA compatibility. Audio options during install allow users to set output from basic 2.0 channel stereo, right up to 7.1 channel output. Digital audio S/PDIF / HDMI passthrough for home theatre systems can be set by the user to output Dolby Digital AC3, Dolby Digital Plus E-AC3, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD, even multichannel non-AC3/DTS audio (for example 5.1 channel FLAC) can be set to encode as AC3 and output to digital S/PDIF / HDMI.
Included in the package are a number of encoder codec’s, allowing you to encode files in formats such as DivX and XviD in your favourite encoding application.
Please note that protected formats may require a specific player. 32-bit and 64-bit version of Windows Media Player are supported as well as most other players. The package supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.

Featured video arranger: image, video, text editors.
Single blend mode and multiple blend mode with more than 30 different blend modes.
Animation editor with move,zoom,rotate,scale animation modes with 3D object support.
Featured layer blend modes and geometric/brush masking capabilities.
Multiple-Cut mode with unlimited part grid.
Multiple media bays with grid list, categories and sort.
GPU-based H.264/H.265 hardware acceleration in rendering.
Over 300 high quality GPU-accelerated effects,transitions,visualizers.
Image color grading.
Lens Correction workspace.
Advanced GPU-accelerated text editor with partial effects, transforms, outlining, glow and linear brush support.
Adobe After Effects plugin support, including 10 quality effects
OpenFX plugin support;
Unlimited tracks, sticky feature, multiple timelines, smart hiding.
Polymorphic tracks and 15 different polymorphic part types.
ASIO, VST 3.x, Remote Control, DMX support, Art-Net support
CoreASIO support: All inputs, record/play to more than one ASIO drivers, loopback recording, FLAC capturing, MP3 streaming, HTTP recording, RTP play/record
Includes 8+GB Orchestra samples and drumkits.
FLAC,MP3,WAV,MID,XML,SF2,SFZ formats
Featured mixer with auxiliary ports, streaming capabilities and n-dimension pans.
Includes featured ASIO driver with VST support, remote control, mixer and streaming support.
Featured audio effects (Compression, Gates, Equalizer, Filters, Reverb, Noise reduction etc)
General Multi-Band subhost, allows multiband configuration for any other effect/VST
AI experimental features (Singing-to-notes, Auto Harmony, Speech to Text)
MIDI Learning, MIDI mapping
Keyboard learning and mapping
DMX Lighting control (ART-NET) interface
HLSL Audio Visualizations
Scripts
Unlimited redo/undo arranger
Cloud storage support
Part Visualization
Project packaging support