K-Lite Codec Pack 20.1.0 / 20.1.4 Beta

@Anonymous

Check if the region of your DVD drive is configured correctly. If the region of the drive does not match that of the DVD that you want to play, then it will result in errors.

Hey there. Just installed K-lite Codec 3.6.5 Standard on my IBM ThinkPad laptop, but when I try to play a DVD, Windows Media Player keeps saying there's an error:

WMP has encountered a problem and needs to close

I tried playing the DVD via Media Player Classic and got a similar error.

Clicking on the PCFriendly icon for the DVD gives this error message:

Unknown or unsupported DVD decoder encountered

I tried uninstalling then reinstalling K-Lite but got the same messages. Without K-Lite I get the message that a compatible DVD decoder hasn't been installed on the computer. Anyone have any ideas?

I don't know why some people say it doesn't work with vista x64. I installed and works JUST GREAT!
So k lite codec pack WORKS WITH VISTA X64!!!

Does K-Lite Codec Pack 3.6.5 Work on Vista X64?

The thing with the dual audio problem is that it did not present itself prior to the problems with the video decoder. Before, I could easily switch between the english and japanese audio.

Another interesting point of this problem was that after really tweaking media player classic I was able to get it to play only one audio track, it would only play the japanese audio. Yet the English was the default track.

just got a new laptop, has vista with wmp11 on it. Will this solve my problems running ipod files (mp4a)? also will i be able to play all avi, acc etc through the same codec pack?

@Aerik

There are several easy solutions for the dual audio problem that you have. You can find them in the FAQ.

Suddenly I wonder if I was a victim of the 3vix mp4 codec stack overflow vulnerability.

http://hackademix .net/2007/12/09/pr0nowned-3ivx-mp4-codec-stack-overflow/

@Greg:

All I can say is that if I had ffdshow video decoder enabled at all with version 3.6.2, it would eventually freeze up my pc.

The interesting part, I guess, is it would happen a couple of seconds after I press stop on media player classic.

I tried a clean uninstall and reinstall, and went to configure and just clicked "reset to recommended settings" and that seemed to fix the problem. Although since I had done very little to cause the problem in the first place, and undoing everything I thought I had tweaked did not seem to help, it's iffy why this worked.

I just installed 3.6.5, I'll see how things turn out.

I also had a problem with the audio decoder, though it wasn't debilitating. I had some anime .avi files with dual english/japanese audio. Suddenly after going from 3.5.4 to 3.6.2, playing these movies would bring up two instances of ffdshow audio, along with two instances of the winamp dsp plugin I was using (DFX), and played both audio streams simultaneously.

Opening the decoder and setting directshow to allow only one instance of ffdshow audio didn't help.

Then .flv files would have no sound.

I eventually just went back to 3.5.4

@Lauren

Washed out colors can usually be solved by changing the video renderer in your player.

Sometimes it can also help to reset the Overlay control and/or color correction settings in your graphics card control panel. Wrong settings there can screw up colors.

@Aerik

Report your problem in more detail, then maybe the ffdshow people can fix it.

NEED HELP PLEASE GUYS

Have had K lite for several months now and absolutely love it...but the other day I was cleaning out crap of the hard disk and I must have deleted something that K lite relies on to run properly.

I have avi's saved that used to display perfectly on my monitor however now they appear grey and washed out...like there is a grey filter over the movie. It is driving me up the wall, I unistalled and reinstalled K lite, but the problem is still there?

Any ideas? Your help is most appreciated.

Lauren

This is the best codec pack i have ever seen. thank you so so so so much for providing this package for free