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Windows Essentials Codec Pack, or WECP for short, is one of the most comprehensive collection of Media Codecs, Filters, Splitters and other tools that will enable you to play 99% of all the movies, music and flash files you download off the internet. WECP also includes a set of powerful filters that can enhance the video quality as well as audio quality and it comes complete with an automatic update service that will keep your computer up-to-date with the latest software upgrades as soon as they become available
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 1.0
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs and filters that allow users to play almost all music and video files downloaded from the Internet, eliminate many problems and errors caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types and also provide users with the latest codecs with the Audio/Video Codec Update Service. Windows Essentials Codec Pack has been designed to be a complete user friendly solution to satisfy all your audio and video needs. Moreover, with it you can play audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, and XCDs on the fly and it offers 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 great Media Player Classic. All in all, with this incredible product you have all you need to watch and listen whatever you want. |
- User-friendly solution Free Media Player Classic included.
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Reviewed by: Silvana Mansilla Reviewer rating: Reviewed: 3 years ago
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What's new in version 3.6
New in version 3.6:
- 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
- New color space converters:
- Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
- Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
- High quality chroma upscaling
- Added dithering to reduce "banding"
- Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
- RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
- Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
- Requires SSE2-capable CPU;
for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
-New RGB conversion options:
- Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
- YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
-Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
- Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
- General code cleanup
- SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer) |
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