Download K-Lite Codec Pack 2025 - Free Download for Windows
K-Lite Codec Pack is available in four different variants, each designed to meet specific needs and preferences. Whether you need a minimal installation with only essential codecs or a comprehensive package with advanced features, there's a variant that's perfect for you. From a small bundle containing only the most essential decoders to a large, comprehensive bundle with everything for video playback and encoding, K-Lite Codec Pack has you covered.
For a detailed overview of the differences between variants, including specific components and features, please visit our About page. Each variant is designed to provide optimal performance and compatibility for different use cases, from casual video playback to professional video editing.
System Compatibility: K-Lite Codec Pack is fully compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11. Older versions of the codec pack also support Windows XP and Windows Vista. All variants include both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) codecs, ensuring excellent performance on both x86 and x64 versions of Windows. The intelligent installer automatically detects your Windows version and architecture, ensuring optimal compatibility and performance.
Standard |
Small but extremely powerful package for audio and video playback
This contains everything you need to play all common audio and video file formats.
Supports playback of for example:
- AVI, MKV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, MOV, TS, M2TS, WMV, RM, RMVB, OGM, WebM
- MP3, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, 3GP, AMR, APE, MKA, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack
- DVD and Blu-ray (after decryption)
- and many more audio and video formats!
Provides lots of useful functionality, such as:
- HDR video playback
- Subtitle display
- Hardware accelerated video decoding
- Audio bitstreaming
- Video thumbnails in Explorer
- File association options
- Broken codec detection
- and much more!
This package includes Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC). This is a very advanced player for high quality playback. It provides many options and useful features. We recommend that you use this player.
Installation of the player is of course optional, just like every other component in the installer can be disabled if desired. So you can also use the K-Lite Codec Pack with any other player that is compatible with DirectShow codecs.
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Full |
Same as Standard, plus:
- MadVR
An advanced video renderer with high quality upscaling algorithms.
- Plugin for 3D video decoding (H.264 MVC)
Note: this requires using MPC-HC with madVR, and also a compatible graphics driver. Recent NVIDIA drivers no longer support 3D video (but you could try "3D Fix Manager").
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Mega |
Same as Full, plus:
- A few ACM/VFW codecs such as x264VFW and Lagarith
This type of codec is used by certain video editing/encoding applications for working with AVI files. For example VirtualDub.
These type of codecs are not used or needed for video playback!
- Bass Audio Source
For decoding OptimFrog and Tracker audio files (very rare formats).
- MPC Image Source
For displaying image formats in DirectShow applications.
- GraphStudioNext
A tool for creating and testing DirectShow graphs.
- ffdshow audio processor
DirectShow filter that provides some audio processing options. Not used by default. Also not needed or recommened.
- ffdshow video processor
DirectShow filter that provides some video processing options. Not used by default. Also not needed or recommened.
Important note:
The K-Lite Codec Pack does not expand the import abilities of professional video editors such as Adobe Premiere or Vegas Movie Studio. Those applications often only support importing a small set of file formats, and do not support using the type of codecs that are included in the codec pack (DirectShow/VFW). Modern editors often only use their own internal codecs or only support external codecs of the Media Foundation type.
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Basic |
The Basic version of the K-Lite Codec Pack only contains a small set of essential DirectShow filters.
The Basic version does not include a player.
You can use this package in combination with an already installed DirectShow player. For example the old legacy version of Windows Media Player.
Please be aware that Windows 10/11 also contains a modern version of Windows Media Player. The modern WMP does not use DirectShow and thus is not compatible with this codec pack. You need to install Media Foundation codecs to be able to play more formats with modern WMP. By default Windows does not include codecs for HEVC, VP9 and other common video formats.
We strongly recommend to install the Standard package and use the included MPC-HC player. That works much better than Windows Media Player. It also plays practically everything, while WMP is limited to a small set of supported audio and video formats.
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Update |
Additional updates for the latest version of the codec pack.
This is not a stand-alone installer. This update requires that the latest version of Basic/Standard/Full/Mega is already installed.
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