Windows Essentials Codec Pack 3.4
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of the most essential Audio and Video DirectShow Codecs and Filters. With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music files that you download off the internet, stay up to date with the latest Codecs with the Audio / Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many conflicts and error caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types.W.E.C.P. is designed as a user-friendly near complete solution for all your video and audio needs, with it you can play Audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs and XCDs on the fly, and it adds support for 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, UMX and many more formats so you could play any video / audio file with your favorite DirectShow media player or with the (included) free and wonderful Media Player Classic.
What´s New in version 3.4: Bugfixes:
* Removed OpenCandy
* Fixed 64-Bit installer issues
* Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer
* Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams
* Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
* Several memory leak fixes
* Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
* Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
* Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
* Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
New and improved features:
* Added support for WebM files
* Added AC-3 in MP4 support
* Added a 64-bit version(s)
* New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
* DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
* OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
* Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
* AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
