What is AVI Codec Pack?

As a collection of codecs and filters, this codec pack allows users to play all major audio and video formats, including DivX, 3ivx, OGG and XviD, etc.

Editions of AVI Codec Pack

• AVI Codec Pack + : One of the most complete package supports playing all major audio and video formats, including DivX, XviD, OGG and many more.
• AVI Codec Pack Lite: A smaller collection of codecs and filters. This package concentrates on playing avi movies and at the same time being small in size. Even with minor size, this package can still perform very well and enable playing most .AVI files.

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What is Divo Codec?

As an unique media codec, the Divo Codec enables users to play movies and music encoded in this media format.  Unlike identical codecs, DivoCodec installs malware on the users computer. The DivoCodec is polymorphic and can change its structure. It has also been known to write to another process’ virtual memory.

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K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.
The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:
- It it always up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
- It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
- It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn’t contain any conflicting codecs.
- It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.

There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: Basic, Standard and Full.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats. It is small enough to fit on a single floppy. Also great for including on your movie CDs.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for the various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

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• How to Convert Canon MTS/M2TS on Mac OS X
• How to Convert MTS/M2TS to QuickTime on Mac
• How to get MTS/M2TS files off camcorder to Mac
• How to Convert MTS/M2TS to MOV on Mac
• How to convert MTS/M2TS files to FLV on Mac OS X

The Media Player Codec Pack is a simple to install package of codecs/filters/splitters used for playing back music and movie files.

After installation you will be able to play 99.9% of files through your media player, along with XCD’s, VCD’s, SVCD’s and DVD’s. Also included in the package are a number of encoder codec’s, allowing you to encode files in formats such as DivX. XviD, x264 and many more in your favourite encoding application. 

Compression types supported include DivX, XviD, x264, h.264 and many more in AVI, MKV, OGM, MP4 files. Video file types supported include 3GPP, AVI, MKV, OGM, MP4, MPG, MPEG, VOB, DAT, FLV, PS, TS, NUV. Audio file types supported include AC3, DTS, AAC, APE, FLAC, TTA, WV, OGG, Vorbis, MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, UMX.

Please note that protected formats may require a specific player. All versions of Windows Media Player are supported as well as most other players. The package supports 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows.

See Also:

• How to convert AVI to MP4 (MPEG-4) on Mac (OS X 10.6 included)
• How to convert DVD movies to MP4 (MPEG-4) on Mac OS X
• How to convert MOV file to MP4 on Mac (Snow Leopard included)
• How to use M2TS converter to convert M2TS to AVI, MP4, MPEG, etc. on Mac
• How to Convert WMV to MP4  on Mac
• How to Convert MP4 to MP3 on Mac OS X

RealMedia Splitter allows to read audio or video files in RealNetworks format (RM, RAM, RMVB, etc.) from any reader based on DirectX.

It can be used in combination with RealAlternative to read RMVB files by decompressing RealMediaSplitter.ax file (using 7-Zip) in c:winntsystem32 ou C:WINDOWSsystem32 depending on the operating system (Windows 2000/Windows XP). After saving the decompressed file in the registry, stick the following instruction:
regsvr32 RealMediaSplitter.ax

Advantages:

• Quick and easy to install
• Completely free

Disadvantages:

Not compatible with the Vista system!

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• How to upload videos and DVD clips to YouTube on Mac
• How to play iPod video on TV
• How to Convert Flash Video (FLV) to AVI on Windows
• What Format Do I Need to Play Songs on my Xbox 360

What is QuickTime Alternative?

QuickTime Alternative is a codec package for Microsoft Windows for playing QuickTime media, normally only playable by the official QuickTime software distribution from Apple Inc. That means it will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt, .3gp and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.

QuickTime Alternative consists of codec libraries extracted from the official distribution, including the official QuickTime plugin and Media Player Classic. The main differences between the official QuickTime distribution and QuickTime Alternative are in feature set, size, and consumption of system resources. QuickTime Alternative is a smaller package and lacks the full complement of software included in Apple QuickTime. In addition, QuickTime Alternative does not run background processes.

Some advantages compared to QuickTime player:

• Quick and easy install
• It’s easy to make an unattended installation
• No background processes
• Use a player of your own choice
• Low on resources
• Smaller size

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Description for DivX 6.8

DivX is short for Digital Video Express which was created by DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.) The DivX Codec has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. DivX Codec 6.8 introduced two major improvements over older versions – multithreaded decoding and support for custom quantization matrices.



Advantages of DivX 6.8

• Up to 50% faster decoding on multi-core computers for better HD playback
• New custom matrices that allow better fine tuning of the encoder for specific content types
• Compress digital video 5 to 10 times more than MPEG-2/DVD format and hundreds of times over raw digital video
• Encode high-definition (HD) video at resolutions up to 1080p
• Play DivX videos on almost any 3rd party software media player
• Achieve the perfect balance between visual quality and performance with six carefully optimized encoding modes
• Enjoy maximized performance for all multithreaded processors (Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon 64 FX)
• Reduce grain and low-light noise (common with DV cameras) without significantly degrading the video with the automated noise reduction feature

How to enjoy high-quality DivX videos?

1. Click ‘Run’ or ‘Save’ in Internet Explorer, or ‘Save File’ in Firefox.
2. Click the button to ‘Open’ or ‘Run’ the DivX installer.
3. Select your language and follow the set-up wizard instructions.

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How to Convert DVD to Xvid on Windows 7/ XP/ Vista?

How to convert DVD to MP3 file on Windows(Windows 7 included)?

To play and create DivX videos on your computer you first need to install the DivX® codec. To install the codec, simply download the latest version available for your system and follow the installation instructions:

	DivX codec v8.0 for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (963KB)
	DivX codec v5.2.1 for Windows 98, Windows ME (7.3MB)
	DivX codec v7.0 for Mac OS X (30.3MB)
	DivX codec v5.1.1 for Mac OS (2.1MB)

When you’ve completed the installation of the video codec, you will be able to use the DivX® player or any other media player to play DivX movies and videos (DIVX, DIV3, DIV4, DX50).

The DivX for Windows bundle features DivX Player 6 with integrated support for the advanced interactive features of the DivX Media Format. DivX for Windows has everything you need to watch high-quality DivX media files including DivX Video-on-Demand movies and high definition (HD).

DivX Player is optimized to play DivX media files with full support for all the advanced features of the DivX Media Format including interactive video menus, multiple subtitles, metadata and alternate audio tracks. In addition, DivX Player is enhanced to give you the full value of DivX HD video through new features such as performance adaptive quality enhancement and the latest and greatest DivX 6 decoder.

DivX Player is optimized to play every DivX file ever created. This includes any file created with DivX 3, 4, 5 and 6 as well as the growing library of thousands of DivX Video-on-Demand movies. DivX for Windows also provides support for the advanced interactive features of the DivX Media Format to popular DirectShow based media players.

See Also:

• How to convert DVD to DivX on Mac OS X for free
• How to Convert ASF to DivX on Mac OS X
• How to Convert 3GP to DivX on Mac OS X
• How to Burn DivX to DVD on Mac OS X
• How to Convert 3G2 to DivX on Mac OS X

What is MP4 Splitter?

Mp4 Splitter is a useful video tool in splitting MP4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 video. It helps you split video clips out from MP4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG in a few seconds. In order to play MP4 files, you must have MP4 Splitter installed. The format was licensed from Apple’s QuickTime by the MPEG group as the official file format for MPEG-4 content. It should become more popular as commercial entities start shipping more MPEG-4 content.

Features:

• Splits video clips out from MPEG4, MP4, MPEG easily
• Splits large video file into smaller ones
• Support popular video formats

See Also:

• How to import MP4 to Windows Movie Maker?
• How to convert DVD to MP4 file on Windows(Windows 7 included)?
• How to convert MP4 to MP3?
• How to convert MKV to MP4 and add subtitle to MKV?