ACE Mega CodecS Pack 6.03 - Professional Edition

After having this installed I had very few issues, or so I thought. After about 3 months of haveing certain avi files causing Windows Media Player to crash I uninstalled this codec pack and it worked fine. Ironic that a codec is suposed to help files work is messing them up.

My oppionion is that they lumped these codecs together without seeing which ones conflicted. If you're having BEC errors THIS IS THE PROBLEM.

It screwed up Explorer so it kept crashing with a Data Execution Prevention error, and Premiere wouldn't even load.

AVOID!


As an addendum to my previous comment, Windows Restore is your friend for getting rid of this codec pack. Boot into safe mode first.

WARNING!

1) It writes some script in my windows registry folder, whithout asking me !!

-> I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT DO !!

2) After installation and the deinstallation, as Tom said, my Realplayer and a Radio Player do not work now !

-> This download should be disabled !

Either fix the LAME encoder or remove it. Having explorer crash every 5 seconds is not my idea of functional software.

this Ace mega Codec Pack is the worst software ever. I am software maker and I know. what it do It, try to took over all of your DIVX and any player context and then, when you try to uninstall it, it glue itself in your registry and then you cannot remove the nuts!!! so anyone who says that ACE megacodec pack is good, can sux balls... !

Don't do it !

Sure they decode the videos well - albeit introducing a delay before playback quite often. They also prevent a number of programs from working - most obviously iTunes, Quicktime, and to a less dramatic extent Safari. They also prevent Bonjour from working properly, which in turn prevents Adobe products from installing properly, which in turn corrupts the MS Windows Installer routines. All in all quit a mess to sort out.

I have an older system devoted as a servaliance system and needed some codics to render some footage for court-room presentation after installing this software, the previously clean computer showed signes of problems, spybot found a Worm & Trogan, and several anti-Virus scanner's not just one found over 30 intances of virus's, maleware, spyware & adware and so called grey-ware on the computer, so much for a computer that was supposed to be a spy, HA! HA!, One of the programes installed with this bundle may even highjack your browser to an adult pr0n site so this software is not recommended for the KID's Computer at all.

I saw this codec pack and decided to try it, I have no problems viewing most any video out there. EXCEPT when its an embedded flv in some website embedded players. Such as tinypic. I made the mistake of letting it give "Browser support" to my firefox.

How do I remove the "Browser support" from Firefox?

just unistalled it because it caused itunes photoshop etc. to crash now that i uninstalled it it wont let me play any kind of video on my laptop e.g videos on bebo profiles etc. dont now what to do:( if any one could help my address is Nathan_Griff@hotmail .co.uk would rilly rilly epresiate it thanks x

Install this Codec Pack on an old computer that you don't care about. What happens to Itunes?!! What happens to QuickTime?!!What happens when you try to uninstall it?!! Unfortunately I only read the comments posted AFTER I installed it!Take my advice: don't subject your new desktop or laptop computer to such cruelty, stick to a more conventional codec pack such as K-Lite.

Complete, yeah.

But it's so buggy. I had too many inrepairable errors upon installing this. And the fact that the codecs used are now TOO outdated for my taste.

This codec pack REALLY needs a serious update.

Programs like Adobe Premiere and others don't work if you install this stupid bulk of codecs. The so called 'ace mega codecs pack' is bugged and causes most video applications to fail at startup.

Not a good codec program...

This simply isnt worth the download, not only is the pack extremely large but it can't play a lot of my files that I could when running the k-lite pack. I ended up installing another codec pack ontop of this to keep running my other files. Also the uninstall didn't complete properly so I have to remove a lot of files manually.

Perhaps if this codec pack consists of codecs that you need not offered elsewhere it'd be worth the download otherwise there are better alternatives out there.

This was the most horrible codec pack ever. It messed up all .dll files associated with Quicktime and iTunes, and I still can't get them to work right after uninstalling both, manually getting rid of old files, and reinstalling. Not to mention half of the codecs didn't work. I understand a pack like this may be useful, but if something like this is to be created, please don't make it sabotage the other media players.

At first, this seems a great codec pack. Everything seems to work just fine. But when i found out that iTunes was not playing any of my files (including video), i decided to uninstall.

That's when all hell broke loose on my machine. Now not just but all my media related software gets frozen, give errors, or simply won't run.

The uninstallation removed all codec related info from registry and "not" replaced with the older settings, it just left everything a blank.

So at this point iTunes, Real Player, Adobe After Effects, convertion programs, even DIVX PLAYER are not working.

I had to re-install these tools all over again. Some are working now, but most of them still give errors (Media Player Classic is not playing DVD or Divx files - divx player works, iTunes still not playing mp3, etc).

So at the end : Yes this is a great mega pack, with an awful installation/removal package.

I belive the developer never tested this package except his/her own computer...