With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you can play 99% of all the movies and music files you download to your computer.
This package includes a rich collection of important video and audio codecs and filters that can prepare your computer to play any format of multimedia content, audio CDs, DVDs, (S) VCDs and XCDs. Windows Essentials Codec Pack also installs Media Player Classic, a reliable multimedia player that supports a wide range of audio and video formats.
The developers claim that after installing this update, you will be able to run 99 percent of multimedia files. The results of our testing of this codec pack showed excellent results: the pack allowed to play absolutely all multimedia files that we could find.
During the installation process you may be offered an additional toolbar, which can be discarded.
