The Best 10 ADVANCED Codecs for Windows 7 and 8 Alternatives

  • K-Lite Codec Pack icon

    K-Lite Codec Pack

    K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats.

    Free Windows

  • LAVfilters

    LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Media Preview

    Fed up with Windows Explorer not always showing thumbnails for all of your media files? Then get Media Preview for free.* First focused on video files, now Media...

    Free Personal Windows

  • Xvid

    Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative development effort. All code is released under the terms of the GNU GPL license.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • DScaler

    DScaler 4 is a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation on a projector or computer monitor.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • AC3Filter

    AC3Filter is a high quality free audio decoder and processor filter. It allows media players to playback movies with AC3 and DTS audio tracks. Also it can process any...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Kawaii Codec Pack

    KCP is a codec pack that contains the latest DirectShow components, utilized to decode an array of media types. KCP was created with a focus Hi10P content playback and...

    Free Windows

  • Codec Pack All-In-1

    Do you download movies and get confused by all the different formats and codecs? Now you dont need to worry about downloading your movie codecs separately, you can do it...

    Free Windows