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The K-Lite Codec Pack also includes several related tools, including Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC), Media Info Lite, and Codec Tweak Tool. [1] K-Lite adds Video for Windows (VFW) codecs and DirectShow filters to the system, so that DirectShow/VFW based players like MPC, Winamp, and Windows Media Player will use them automatically.
The original Media Player Classic was created and maintained by a programmer named "Gabest" [5] who also created PCSX2 graphics plugin GSDX. It was developed as a closed-source application, but later relicensed as free software under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
This is a listing of open-source codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats, audio codecs and video codecs respectively. Many of the codecs listed implement media formats that are restricted by patents and are hence not open formats.
Those codecs are used by many PC games which use voice chats via Microsoft DirectPlay API. Voxware MetaVoice Windows Media Player (voxmvdec.ax) Truespeech. Windows Media Player (tssoft32.acm) FFmpeg (decoder only) MS GSM Windows Media Player (msgsm32.acm) libgsm; FFmpeg (decoder only) MS-ADPCM Windows Media Player (msadp32.acm) FFmpeg
The popular MPV, xine and VLC media players use it as their main, built-in decoding engine that enables playback of many audio and video formats on all supported platforms. It is also used by the ffdshow tryouts decoder as its primary decoding library. libavcodec is also used in video editing and transcoding applications like Avidemux ...
Version 2.0.0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012. [12] [37] The version for the Windows Store was released on March 13, 2014. Support for Windows RT, Windows Phone and Xbox One were added later. [38] As of 2016 VLC is the third in the sourceforge.net overall download count, [39] and there have been more than 3 billion ...
The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, video players are defined as any media player which can play video , even if it can also play audio files.
Windows Media Player, Windows Media Encoder: FFmpeg (decoding only for Pro, Lossless and Voice) internet streaming Yes No Yes Yes Optional [42] Audio compression format Creator First public release date Latest stable version Encoder Player Proprietary implementations (codecs) Open-source implementations (codecs) Uses (other than consumer audio)