By using RedFox AnyDVD HD with this Codec Pack users can play: Protected Bluray, HD-DVD, AVCHD, DVD, CD discs. Package Codec Components: LAV Video decoder 0.74.1 Build 60 x86. LAV Video decoder 0.74.1 Build 60 x64. Ffdshow DirectShow Video Codec x86 version 1.3.4533 by Cole. Ffdshow DirectShow Video Codec x86 version 1.3.4533 by Cole. Error FIXED How to Play / Run x265 - H.265 / H265 - HEVC mkv video format files on KM Player New update Sinhala2017 Also you can play x264 videos too.
In the table below you can view which audio, video, and file formats the K-Lite Codec Pack supports. As you can see, even the smallest pack already supports playback of almost everything!
Download K-Lite Codec Pack. There are four different variants of the K-Lite Codec Pack. Ranging from a very small bundle that contains only the most essential decoders to a large and more comprehensive bundle. The global differences between the variants can be found below.
- X265 is a H.265 / HEVC video encoder application library, designed to encode video or images into an H.265 / HEVC encoded bitstream. X265 Project Goals x265 demonstrates best overall HEVC encoding efficiency in Moscow State University’s Codec Comparison.
- KMPlayer 4.2.2.34 on 15 December 2019, reviewed by: Ziggy1978 For new users: KMPlayer was made originally with the code of MPC and FFDSHOW, but when the developer sold the.
The difference between the packs lies mostly in the included tools. If you want to know more about the difference in contents of packs, then have a look at the comparison of contents page.
You might think that a lot of codecs are needed to support this large list of formats. But that is not the case. The codec pack uses just a handfull of DirectShow filters.
B | S | F U L L | M |
DVD and Blu-ray | Notes | ||
Blu-ray playback | Works only if the content is decrypted! (tip: Passkey Lite, AnyDVD HD) | ||
DVD playback in MPC-HC | |||
DVD playback in WMP | Windows Vista/7: works with all variants of the codec pack | ||
VCD, SVCD and XCD | Note: requires using MPC-HC | ||
DTS audio CD | Note: requires using MPC-HC | ||
Supported video containers | File extensions | ||
AVI | .avi .divx .amv | ||
MPEG-PS | .mpg .mpeg .mpe .m1v .m2v .mpv2 .mp2v .m2p .vob .evo .mod | ||
MPEG-TS | .ts .m2ts .m2t .mts .pva .tp .tpr | ||
MP4 | .mp4 .m4v .mp4v .mpv4 .hdmov | ||
MOV | .mov | ||
3GP | .3gp .3gpp .3g2 .3gp2 | ||
Matroska / WebM | .mkv .webm | ||
Ogg | .ogm .ogv | ||
Flash Video | .flv .f4v | ||
Windows Media | .wmv .asf | ||
RealMedia | .rmvb .rm | ||
Digital Video | .dv | ||
Material Exchange Format | .mxf | ||
DHAV | .dav | ||
Supported audio files | File extensions | ||
MP3 | .mp3 | ||
Ogg | .ogg .oga | ||
Matroska | .mka | ||
MPEG-4 Audio | .m4a .aac | ||
FLAC | .flac | ||
WavPack | .wv | ||
Musepack | .mpc | ||
Monkey's Audio | .ape | ||
Apple Lossless Audio Codec | .alac | ||
AMR | .amr | ||
True Audio | .tta | ||
AC3 | .ac3 | ||
DTS | .dts | ||
RealMedia | .ra | ||
Opus | .opus | ||
Speex | .spx | ||
AIFF | .aif .aiff .aifc | ||
CoreAudio Format | .caf | ||
TAK | .tak | ||
Shorten | .shr | ||
OptimFrog | .ofr .ofs (works only in 32-bit players) | ||
Tracker | .it .mo3 .mtm .s3m .umx .xm (works only in 32-bit players) | ||
Supported video formats (within a container) | FourCC | ||
H.264/AVC | H264, AVC1, X264, CCV1, xalg | ||
H.265/HEVC | HEVC, HVC1, HM10 | ||
MPEG-1 | MPEG, MPG1 | ||
MPEG-2 | MPG2 | ||
MPEG-4/DivX/Xvid | DIVX, DX50, XVID, MP4V, 3IVX, BLZ0, MPG3, DIV3, DIV4, DIV5, DIV6, 3IV1, 3IV2, FMP4, MP4S, M4S2, DVX3, SEDG, SMP4 | ||
VC-1 | WVC1, WMVA | ||
MP41 | MP41, MPG4, DIV1 | ||
MP42 | MP42, DIV2 | ||
MP43 | MP43 | ||
H.261 | H261, M261 | ||
H.263 | H263, S263 | ||
Flash Video (H.263) | FLV1 | ||
Flash Video (VP6) | FLV4, VP6F, FSV1 | ||
Theora | THEO | ||
VP3 | VP31 | ||
VP5 | VP50 | ||
VP6 | VP60, VP61, VP62, VP6A | ||
VP7 | VP70 | ||
VP8 | VP80 | ||
VP9 | VP90 | ||
Huffyuv | HFYU, FFVH | ||
MJPEG | MJPG, AVRN, AMVV, AMVF, LJPG, JPGL, MJLS, MJPA, MJPB, SP5X | ||
Sorenson Video 1 | SVQ1 | ||
Sorenson Video 3 | SVQ3 | ||
Digital Video | DVSD, DV25, DV50, CDVH, DVCP, DV5P, DV5N, DVPP, DVC, DVH1, DVH2, DVH3, DVH4, DVH5, DVH6, DVHQ, DVHP, AVdv, AVd1, CDVC, CDV5, (DVIS, PDVC) | ||
QuickTime Planar RGB | 8BPS | ||
QuickTime Animation | QRLE | ||
QuickTime RPZA | RPZA | ||
QuickTime SMC | smc | ||
FFV1 | FFV1 | ||
Camstudio | CSCD | ||
CorePNG | PNG1, MPNG | ||
LOCO | LOCO | ||
LCL Lossless Codec Library | MSZH | ||
TechSmith Camtasia | TSCC | ||
ZLIB Lossless Codec Library | ZLIB | ||
Zip Motion Blocks Video | ZMVB | ||
Autodesc RLE | AASC | ||
ATI VCR1 | VCR1 | ||
Cinepak | CVID | ||
Intel Indeo 2 | RT21 | ||
Intel Indeo 3 | IV31, IV32 | ||
Intel Indeo 4 | IV41 | ||
Intel Indeo 5 | IV50 | ||
Intel H.263 | I263 | ||
Fraps | FPS1 | ||
MS Video 1 | CRAM, MSVC, WHAM | ||
MS RLE | MRLE | ||
Q-Team QPEG | QPEG, QP10, QP11 | ||
RealVideo | RV10, RV20, RV30, RV40 | ||
Truemotion 1/2 | DUCK, TM20 | ||
Dirac | DRAC | ||
Lagarith | LAGS | ||
ProRes | APCH, APCN, APCS, APCO, AP4H, AP4X | ||
utVideo | ULRA, ULRG, ULY0, ULY2, ULY4, UQY2, UQRG, UQRA, ULH0, ULH2, ULH4, UMY2, UMH2, UMY4, UMH4, UMRG, UMRA | ||
DNxHD | AVdn | ||
DNxHR (partial) | AVdh | ||
VMware video | VMnc | ||
JPEG2000 DCinema | MJP2, MJ2C, LJ2C, LJ2K, IPJ2 | ||
BINK video | BIKI, BIKB | ||
Smacker video | SMK2, SMK4 | ||
GoToMeeting | G2M2, G2M3, G2M4, G2M5 | ||
Apple Intermediate Codec | ICOD | ||
GeoVision | GEOV | ||
Miro VideoXL | VIXL | ||
Ultimotion | ULTI | ||
ASUS v1/v2 | ASV1, ASV2 | ||
Creative YUV | CYUV | ||
Winnov v1 | WNV1 | ||
Mirillis FIC | FICV | ||
Cineform HD (partial) | CFHD | ||
MagicYUV | MAGY, M8RG, M8RA, M8G0, M8Y0, M8Y2, M8Y4, M8YA | ||
Hap | Hap1, Hap5, HapY | ||
DXV | DXD3, DXDI | ||
Motion Decoder | MDEC | ||
4XM video | 4XMV | ||
Gryphon's Anim Compressor | ARBC | ||
Supported audio formats (within a container) | AudioTag/FourCC | ||
MP3 | 55, 85 | ||
MP2 | 80 | ||
MP1 | |||
AC3 (Dolby Digital) | 2000, 8192 | ||
E-AC3 (Dolby Digital Plus) | EAC3 | ||
DTS | 2001 | ||
DTS-HD (Master Audio / HRA) | |||
DTS-ES | |||
DTS Express (LBR) | |||
Dolby TrueHD/MLP | DTSH, MLP | ||
AAC | 00FF, 01FF, MP4A | ||
LPCM | LPCM | ||
Vorbis | 26447, 674F | ||
FLAC | f1ac | ||
WavPack | 5756 | ||
Musepack | |||
AMR | FE, samr | ||
True Audio | 77a1 | ||
MPEG-4 ALS | |||
Microsoft ADPCM | 2, 17 | ||
IMA ADPCM | 11, 61, 62, AMVA | ||
Creative ADPCM | 200 | ||
G.726 | 45 | ||
G.711 (A-law / Mu-law) | 7, 6c75, ALAW, ULAW | ||
MS GSM | 49 | ||
TrueSpeech | 22 | ||
QDM2 | QDM2 | ||
MACE | MAC3, MAC6 | ||
RealAudio 1/2 | 14_4, 28_8 | ||
RealAudio Lossless | RALF | ||
Cook | COOK | ||
Sipr | SIPR | ||
Intel Music Coder (IMC) | 401 | ||
ATRAC 1/3/3+ | ATRC, 270 | ||
Nellymoser | NELL | ||
WMA v1 | 160 | ||
WMA v2 | 161 | ||
WMA Pro | 162 | ||
WMA Lossless | 163 | ||
DivX WMA | 353 | ||
Speex | A109 | ||
S302M | AES3 | ||
G.729 | 729A | ||
Video encoding (VFW) | |||
MPEG-4 (Xvid) | |||
H.264 (x264VFW) | |||
Lagarith | |||
Huffyuv | |||
Audio encoding (ACM) | |||
MP3 | |||
AC3 | |||
B | S | F U L L | M |
Windows Media Player is not familiar to the users using Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
It is natural to play a video file with the default media player on Windows. However, when you open some video files, e.g. MKV, with Windows Media Player, you will be interrupted by an error message that Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.
When getting the problem of playing MKV files on Windows Media Player, you will need to install the MKC codec on your Windows computer for smooth playback of MKV file.
In this article, we will show the comprehensive guide of MKC codec for Windows Media Player, including what is MKC codec, how to download/install, and the solutions to get rid of the MKV codec on Windows Media Player.
Part 1. What Is MKV codec for Windows Media Player
By default, the Windows operating system and the Player include a number of the most popular codecs, such as WMV, WMA and MP3, AND Windows Media Player 12 has a wider support of .asf, .wma, .wmv, .wm, .asx, .wax, .wvx, .wmx, .wpl, .dvr-ms, .wmd, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .m1v, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .mpe, .m3u, .mid, .midi, .rmi, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .au, .snd, .wav, .cda, .ivf, .wmz, .wms, .mov, .m4a, .mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .3g2, .3gp2, .3gp, .3gpp, .aac, .adt, .adts, .m2ts, and .flac).
Though it supports multiple codecs, such codecs as MKV, are not in the list.
For playing MKV files on Windows Media Player, you need to install the matching codec, which compresses or decompresses media files such as songs or videos.
How to get the MKV codec installed on Windows Media Player?
That is what we shall talk in the next part.
Part 2. How to Download and Install MKV Codec on Windows Media Player
For downloading the MKV codec on Windows Media Player, you can try searching the internet for it. You can often go to a codec manufacturer's website to download the most recent version of a codec.
https://www.mediaplayercodecpack.com/ is the one of the MKC codec package download website.
Not only MKV in HD/4K, it also plays .BDMV, EVO, HEVC, AVI, FLV, WEBM, MP4, M4V, M4A, TS, OGM, .AC3, DTS, ALAC, FLAC, APE, AAC, OGG, OFR, MPC and 3GP. For compression types like x264, x265, h.265, HEVC, 10bit x265, 10bit x264, AVCHD, AVC, DivX, XviD, MP4, MPEG4, MPEG2, etc. will also be supported.
Download MKV codec pack on Windows 10/8/7/Vista/2008 here: https://www.mediaplayercodecpack.com/download.php?file=codecpack
Download MKV codec pack on Windows XP/2003/2000 here: https://www.mediaplayercodecpack.com/download.php?file=codecpacklegacy
After downloading the MKV codec, you just need to select 'Easy Installation' for simple installation and 'Expert Installation' for advanced installation.
After that, you just need to add the MKV file into Windows Media Player for direct playback.
Caution: When you install MKV codec that you find on the internet, you are recommended to remove them if you are having problems with the Player.
Part 3. How to Transcode MKV to Windows Media Player without Downloading MKV Codec
It has a risk of installing the MKV codec on Windows Media Player, and it makes it difficult for Microsoft Support to diagnose and troubleshoot playback issues.
Is there any way to play MKV files without downloading MKV codec?
Yes, and converting MKV to Windows Media Player supported formats will be the solution.
AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate is the MKV to Windows Media Player converting software, not only SD, HD, 4K, even the 3D MKV is also supported.
- • It can easily convert MKV to WMV, AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, 3GP, MPG, etc.
- • It extracts WMA, MP3, AIFF, M4A, etc. from MKV files for audio playback.
- • It supports DivX, H.264, H.265, XviD, etc. compression.
- • Convert DVD to Windows Media Player supported formats for easy DVD playback.
- • It lets you add subtitles in SRT, SSA and ASS, and extra audio-track from MKV video file.
- • Edit MKV file before converting, like rotate, watermark, effect, enhance, crop, clip, etc.
Free download and run Video Converter Ultimate on your computer.
Kmplayer Hevc Codec
Click 'Add File' button and add the MKV video into this software. It supports batch conversion, so you are allowed to import more than one MKV video files.
If you need, just click “Edit” button to start to edit the MKV file before converting, like adjust the video effect, rotate/crop/enhance/watermark video to your satisfaction.
Click “Profile” and choose the Windows Media Player supported WMV, WMA, MP3, etc. Then click Browse and define the output folder where the converted MKV video will be saved.
Click 'Convert' button in the main interface, wait a few minutes, then you can get the converted MKV file on your computer.
Certainly you could convert MKV to other formats for Apple TV, iPad, Xbox 360, PS4, etc.
Part 4. Best Windows Media Player Alternative to Play Any Video Smoothly
Though Windows Media Player is the default player for Windows users, you have to admit it is not as smooth as other media players like VLC, PotPlayer, KMPlayer, etc.
To get rid of the risk of downloading MKV codec and the embarrass of using Windows Media Player, seeking for an excellent video player is the ultimate solution.
Blu-ray Master Free Blu-ray Player is the powerful MKV player freeware. It lets you play MKV videos for free on Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP (SP2 or later) easily.
Update Kmplayer
- • Play MP4, AVI, WMV, MTS, TS, FLV, MTS, M2TS, WKV, TRP, MXF, MPEG, etc.
- • Play FLAC, WAV, WMA, MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3, AIFF, M4A, etc. on computer.
- • Play Blu-ray/DVD disc on your computer easily.
- • Customize the playback settings freely.
Free download this wonderful Free Blu-ray Player software to your computer, and then follow the instructions to install and run it immediately.
Kmplayer Hevc Codec Software
Click 'Open File' to import MKV or other video/audio file into this software. Then this freeware will play MKV file automatically.
If you want to play Blu-ray disc, just click 'Open Disc' to load Blu-ray files to the program.
Part 5. FAQs of MKV Codec for Windows Media Player
1. How do I update my codecs for Windows Media Player?
You can check for the latest updates using automatic updates. If there are new codec’s or required codec’s, it will be downloaded and installed by the automatic update feature of windows vista. To access windows updates click on start, click on control panel and then click on windows updates. You will see all the important and required updates.
2. How can I find out which codecs are installed on my PC?
Open windows Media Player and if you don’t have a toolbar menu visible right click towards the top of the program to bring up the context menu. Go to Help > About Windows Media Player, then click on the Technical Support Information link at the bottom. This will open a webpage that lists several bits of information including installed audio and video codecs.
3. Which is a standard video file format for Microsoft Windows?
The video formats that Windows can support are the following: asf, wmv, wma, wm, avi, mpeg, mpg, mp2, mp3, m1v, mpe, mpa, m3u, mpv2, vob, mod, mp4, mp4v, m4v, 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, etc.
4. What is the best format for Windows Media Player?
The file formats that can be played across all versions of Windows Media Player are as follows: asf, wmv, wma, wm, wmd, avi, mpg, m1v, mpeg, mp3, mp2, mpe, mpa, m3u, wmz, wmz, etc.
Conclusion
This page shows the full information about MKV codec for Windows Media Player. Windows Media Player does not support MKV playback, and you have to download and install the MKV codec for smooth playback, but it is risky to download the MKV codec for using on Windows Media Player. To remove the risk, you can convert MKV to Windows Media Player compatible formats with AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate. Alternatively, you could give up Windows Media Player to use Blu-ray Master Free Blu-ray Player to play MKV and other video/audio files on Windows 10/8/7 computer to kick all trouble out.
Now, I’d like to hear what you have to say:
Have you play MKV files on Windows Media Player?
Which way is your best choice?
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