As many users of Windows Vista have found out, videos downloaded from the internet will not always play. This is often due to the lack of appropriate vista codec, which decodes the data into something that you can watch in a media player.
In this article, we will introduce you guys some great Vista Codecs Pack as well as an easy alternative that can play almost any media file. Many of the packs will also allow DVD playback, which some Windows Vista versions cannot do out of the box.
1. Vista Codec Package 5.4.8
Vista Codec Package compiles the best codecs from all the big name codec packs. With
Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter.
With this package installed you will be able to use any media player (limited by the players capabilities) to play
DVD's, movies and video clips such as quicktime(
mov,
qt), realmedia(
wav,
ra,
ram,
rm),
avi,
mpeg,
flv,
swf,
wmv, etc.
2. Vista Codecs x64 Components package
Vista Codecs x64 Components package is a 64 bit codec package especially for Vista.
Codecs have always been a tricky thing to get right but this Vista codec package takes from the best, all the big name creators and several small ones too. All possible conflicts have already been dealt with.
3. FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder
FFDShow is a set of DirectShow filters and VFW codec for video compression, decompression and processing and audio compression and processing. You can play almost any movie using ffdshow.
4. K-Lite Codec Pack
The K-Lite Codec pack is the most popular codec pack available at the moment and works flawlessly on Windows Vista. The main benefit of this package is that you can choose the broad type of pack you wish to install (either Basic, Standard or Full).
5. Windows Media Video 9 VCM
This Video Compression Manager (VCM) based version of the Windows Media Video 9 encoder/decoder will enable legacy encoding and editing applications to support the Windows Media Video 9 codec in file containers such as AVI.
Other Popular Codec Pack for Windows
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