K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 15.8 reviews

THANK YOU SO MUCH MUCH TO YOU GUYS OR YOU ALL WHO MAKES THIS CODEC! THANK YOU!

You guys are the best. Thank you for your hard work.

Saying "Thank you" to everyone participated in this great work and supplied it for free is nothing to express the real feeling we feel to them.

great work guys. i've been using the mega codec pack for years. keep up the great work.

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.5.0

Very good pack. Supplies all the extra codecs needed for encoding and decoding a huge range of formats and file associations can be configured for all your Media Players. Media Player Home Cinema and LAV provide excellent quality.

I recommend custom installing using the Extras + Media Player Home Cinema setting and disabling all the Tray Icons for LAV, ffdshow, etc and Codec News during install. You can leave the other settings how they are except toolbar/adware and the end of install setup.

DON'T FORGET to deselect the TOOLBAR and other ADWARE at the end of the installation setup, accomplished by selecting the "No Thanks" check-mark to avoid the installation of adware! The separate update packs, or "quick update" option for new versions then won't install the adware junk if you remember to select the "No Thanks" option for the junkware/toolbar at the end of the install setup the first time you install K-lite Codec Pack.

If you also use Winamp as a seperate music player (I'm using Winamp 5.65x86 currently), download the Winamp plugin MatrixMixer_0_9_163d from SourceForge, open the extracted folder and copy "out_mixer.dll" into Winamp's plugin folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins) for surround sound on analogue or digital speaker setups. You can configure MatrixMixer from Winamp's Preferences>Plug-ins>Output settings. You can configure Output up to 5.1 or Dolby/Pro Logic II, PCM to 24bit (even 32bit for studio gear, stick to 24bit though), and up to 192kHz audio. Plus there is SPDIF and passthrough settings if you need them, though most decoders will not need you to adjust the SPDIF settings.

http://sourceforge .net/projects/winampmatrixmix/

MatrixMixer is especially helpful for owners of Creative Zx/ZxR sound cards to replace the missing Stereo Surround feature which is no longer found in the Sound Blaster Control Panel.
Set MatrixMixer Output format to 5.1, (PCM 24bit and 192kHz if you like also), then on the Mixer tab you can set Bass redirection (80Hz for Cutoff frequency, 110Hz or whatever you like).

Only problem with MatrixMixer is you have to set the settings again each time you start up Winamp, but it gives you back stereo surround if you have a Creative Zx/ZxR. I set my Logitec Decoder to 4.1 for stereo surround, but I must leave MatrixMixer still set to 5.1 or it will crash if I set it to 4.1. This provides excellent quality stereo surround with bass redirection.

@sam
There are also often update packs available for versions in between the major releases.

@Donna, and where can I find 10.4.7 ?
Afaik, K-Lite versions are updated like this:
9.9.0
9.9.5
...
10.4.0
10.4.5

@sam
Auto-zoom was fixed by MPC-HC developers in 10.4.7

K-Lite Mega codec pack is the best, been using it for 5 years and it's working perfectly.

There's something wrong with the last update, the auto-zoom isn't working at all.

I tried enabling/disabling it, but it's no use.

@Mishu

1. LAV Filters work better than ffdshow. Quality is same or better.

2. Deinterlacing is done by either the video decoder or video renderer. DirectVobSub is not able to forward interlacing flags to the renderer. So you have to enable deinterlacing in the decoder. LAV Video decoder offers YaDif option for that.

3. That is bug of renderer or driver.

No doubt it's the best video player/codec pack available on www. I use it since 2007; started with older codec pack, different name but similar to this, then K-lite codec 2.88 then version 3... time passed and now voila, 10.3.5 :)

However, there are still some issues, hoping in the future it'll be even better:

1. I don't like those "lav codecs" default settings when installing. ffdshow is still way better generally speaking, regarding the quality of playback. Those guys working on lav codecs will have to prove first that they have the best stuff, and then it'll be okay to put those first
2. LAV splitter - yes, this is really good, Haali splitter had&still have lots of issues, especially on mpeg-2 playback. But: when the direct vobsub is active (subtitles), 25i fps videos have interlaced effects(the video becomes a bunch of horizontal lines, not watchable at all). With nero splitter - no problems at all. And yes, the de-interlace sett. I use is 'bob'-which plays real 25i fps. Is's a lav splitter issue. The reason I don't use nero is because of the interface. In lav is easier to change audio/subtitles streams. Hope they will get this fixed.
3. mpc-hc DXVA decoder - working fine, no problems on Win7. On XP, there's a horizontal black line (of maybe 20 pixles) on the very bottom of the screen. Not big issue though; at the same time I realize that most apps made today are tested on modern sistems: win7, 8... and less testing on sp3 xp.

Now, maybe some people will be telling me something like :"it's just you, you didn't adjust the correct video renderer, the x setting or the y setting". This may not be the case, it's been a while since I'm playing around with different playback settings & stuff, on both old & new computers ;)

@kalyanprodhan
The time scale changes if you click on the time indicator.

@Skypilot
Bookmarks was fixed in latest MP-HC.

The video timescale is given in reverse order. that means instead of give shown time it shows the pending time by default.

Moreover some videos are not playing smoothly like earlier.

There is a problem in disabling media foundation for MP4. it screws the FPS of the movie and it starts running in fast forward mode.

This version does not handle the bookmarks correctly for a DVD file with Video_Ts folder.

At least not on my configuration. Worked fine in 10.0.5.

Video stops playing in the middle, the graphic simply freeze or doing some weird loops but the sound continue to play.

Does this one has virus as reported by Vincent ??

Anybody noticed anything strange after installation like their anti-viruses are disabled or infections detected by their antiviruses ??

Best version so far is version 6.1 and newer 8.7. All version after those old version has quite a bugs.

During installation the DivX installer showed up, witch was strange since the reason to use this codec pack is to avoid installing the crapware so I canceled it. Later windows notify me that security center was disabled and security essential as well.

Later installed AVG and discovered that regular program files were infected.

It is necessary to ensure all files are being opened and played properly when installing K-Lite.

Last time after installing 9.7.x, all files except transport stream files can play in MPCHC. Attempting to open a TS file will result in MPCHC error (even after switching splitters). Had to reinstall an older version (9.3.0) in the end to get the TS file playback working, but then weird RMVB playback issues occur (symptoms occur after repeated search, cue/review).

Definitely more debugging efforts are needed when releasing K-Lite updates.

Excellent codec pack, has been my choice for more than 5 years, and I only had twice since that time to use VLC for a problem of subtitles handling on 2 rmvb movies. Except those very very rares exceptions, it has never failed, and MPC is a kick-ass player !!

Only deception : since a few packs, the tool G-Spot have been removed from the pack, it was a great tool to get every info you needed from the audiovideo files.

Keep on the good work (and please get back G-Spot :P)

For some reason, when I install the Codec pack, it says that some registries are missing, so no codecs get installed. Is there a way to fix this?

@sprinter
Read the K-Lite FAQ and you will find a solution.

LAV filter causing no sound when try fast forwarding rmvb movies

Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo
Video: RealVideo 4 848x480

@Junaid
Report your problem on the forum of the developers. They should be able to help you.

The Lav spilter of K-lite codec pack cause problem when viewing photos in win vista/7("com surrogate has stopped working")and make windows photo viewer crash after viewing every 3-4 photos. And when playing a file with mpc it stops responding about 3-4 seconds before playing it.

A really large number of people are facing these problems, please solve them!

@Abbas Hussain
You can avoid crash by disabling thumbnail generation.
The developers can only fix crashes if you send them a link to a crashing file.

k-lite Codec Pack has problem with Falsh Vedio Files. Many of times when you download FLV files after installing K-Lite Codec Pack. They Crashed and Windows Explorer restart.

Also Crashes AVI files and Processing go up to 100%.
So developers should need to remove this bug..............

K-Lite Codec Pack 8.1.0
To fix crashes while playing certain formats, untick "Use of DXVA hardware acceleration" in Codec Tweak Tool=>Various Tweaks.

Thi version K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.4.0 not open "matroska and mp4"

From version 8.30, if you play any video file with extensions: mkv, ts, avi, wmv... they all crash.

this version crashes my pc when playing avi files.
No FAQ did not help.
Disabling ffdshow.ax filter helped but then i couldn't play some of the other files.
trying 6.2

@Misha
MPC-HC is 99% identical to the old MPC. If you are having problems with MPC-HC you should report them in detail. Without specifics they can't fix it. If you don't report details, you will not be taking seriously and they may remove the old MPC.

Don't EVER, EVER, EVER think about discontinuing MPC. Media Player Homecinema is, in my opinion, total garbage and doesn't work well. And it's very user-unfriendly.

MPC is without a doubt, the best Media player that is available for any version of Windows.

The few programs that are better than this are only available through Linux.

So-- please reconsider your decision to discontinue MPC. I'm sure I'm not the only user that will thank you for it.

cheers

@GLowingStar
You have accidentally enabled D3D FullScreen. You can disable it in Options>Playback>Output.

@Cupid
Change the video renderer in MPC settings, or update your graphics driver.

@Tobias
Upside down video is because of bad graphics driver

MPC-HC-1.5.3.3904 is virtually useless. When double clicking a file, it goes fullscreen although option is not set to start in fullscreen.

Then, you can't escape the fullscreen mode and there is no way to leave (even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work).
Didn't have this issue with any previous installation of K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Win7 32-bit.

Installed the latest K-lite codec Mega pack on my PC using Win-Vista 32Bit. Kindly never discontinue MPC-Regular, because MPC-HC-1.5.3.3904 or MP-HC-1.2 won't open instantly when a video file is opened, there is a time delay of 15 Sec's every time a video file is opened avi or mp4. And it opens instantly on MPC-Regular.

Please find a solution for this issue then please think of discontinuing MPC-Regular.

V.8.0 have some big improvements, but unfortunately the WM7 render flips and mirrors the whole picture making it useless. The ofter renderers seems to work nicely but om slow computers WM7 is the only usable since it uses much less resources.

k-lite mega codec pack 7.9.0 will not play radio real player format.

Very nice as always, but please don't remove MPC Regular edition in the future version. I don't like Home Cinema because it doesn't have the DSM converter that Regular has. It's a great tool to extract things from mkv files.