Comparison of abilities

In the table below you can view which audio, video, and file formats the K-Lite Codec Pack supports. As you can see, even the smallest pack already supports playback of almost everything! The difference between the packs lies mostly in the included tools. If you want to know more about the difference in contents of packs, then have a look at the comparison of contents page.

		B A S I C	S T A N D A R D	F U L L	M E G A	6 4 B I T
DVD and Blu-ray
Blu-ray playback	Works only if the content is decrypted! (tip: Passkey Lite)
DVD playback
VCD, SVCD and XCD	Requires Media Player Classic
Supported video containers	File extensions
AVI	.avi .divx .amv
MPEG-PS	.mpg .mpeg .mpe .m1v .m2v .mpv2 .mp2v .m2p .vob .evo .mod
MPEG-TS	.ts .m2ts .m2t .mts .pva .tp .tpr
MP4	.mp4 .m4v .mp4v .mpv4 .hdmov
MOV	.mov
3GP	.3gp .3gpp .3g2 .3gp2
Matroska / WebM	.mkv .webm
Ogg	.ogm .ogv
Flash Video	.flv .f4v
Windows Media	.wmv
RealMedia	.rmvb .rm
Supported audio files	File extensions
MP3	.mp3
Ogg	.ogg .oga
Matroska	.mka
MPEG-4 Audio	.m4a .aac
FLAC	.flac
WavPack	.wv
Musepack	.mpc
Monkey's Audio	.ape
Monkey's Audio Playlist	.apl
OptimFrog	.ofr .ofs
Apple Lossless Audio Codec	.alac
AMR	.amr
True Audio	.tta
TAK	.tak
AC3	.ac3
DTS	.dts
RealMedia	.ra
Opus	.opus
Speex	.spx
AIFF	.aif .aiff .aifc
CoreAudio Format	.caf
Tracker	.it .mo3 .mtm .s3m .umx .xm
Supported video formats (within a container)	FourCC
MPEG-4/DivX/Xvid	DIVX, DX50, XVID, MP4V, 3IVX, BLZ0, DXGM, NDIG, XVIX, DIV3, DIV4, DIV5, DIV6, 3IV1, 3IV2, MP4S, M4S2, RMP4, DM4V, WV1F, FMP4, HDX4, SMP4, LMP4, SEDG, AP41, COL1, DVX3, MPG3
H.264/AVC	H264, AVC1, X264, VSSH, DAVC, PAVC
MPEG-1	MPEG, MPG1, 1001
MPEG-2	MPG2, 1002, EM2V, MMES
VC-1	WVC1
MP41	MP41, MPG4, DIV1
MP42	MP42, DIV2
MP43	MP43
H.261	H261, M261
H.263	H263, L263, M263, U263, X263, S263
Flash Video (H.263)	FLV1
Flash Video (VP6)	FLV4, VP6F, FSV1
Theora	THEO
VP3	VP31
VP5	VP50
VP6	VP60, VP61, VP62, VP6A
VP7	VP70
VP8	VP80
Huffyuv	HFYU, FFVH
MJPEG	MJPG, LJPG, MJLS, AVRN, MJPA, SP5X, AMVV, AMVF
Sorenson Video 1	SVQ1
Sorenson Video 3	SVQ3
DV	DVSD, DV25, DV50, CDVC, CDV5, DVIS, PDVC
QuickTime Planar RGB	8BPS
QuickTime Animation	QRLE
QuickTime RPZA	RPZA
FFV1	FFV1
Camstudio	CSCD
CorePNG	PNG1, MPNG
LOCO	LOCO
LCL Lossless Codec Library	MSZH
TechSmith Camtasia	TSCC
ZLIB Lossless Codec Library	ZLIB
Zip Motion Blocks Video	ZMVB
Autodesc RLE	AASC
ASUS v1/v2	ASV1, ASV2
ATI VCR1	VCR1
Cinepak	CVID
Creative YUV	CYUV
Intel Indeo 2	RT21
Intel Indeo 3	IV31, IV32
Intel Indeo 4	IV41
Intel Indeo 5	IV50
Intel H.263	I263
Fraps	FPS1
Miro VideoXL	VIXL
MS Video 1	CRAM
MS RLE	MRLE
Q-Team QPEG	QPEG, QP10, QP11
RealVideo	RV10, RV20, RV30, RV40
Truemotion v1/v2	TM20
Ultimotion	ULTI
Winnov v1	WNV1
Dirac	DRAC
Lagarith
ProRes
utVideo	ULRA, ULRG, ULY0, ULY2
DNxHD	AVdn
Supported audio formats (within a container)	AudioTag/FourCC
MP3	55, 85
MP2	80
MP1
AC3	2000, 8192
E-AC3	EAC3
DTS	2001
Dolby TrueHD/MLP	DTSH
AAC	AAC0, 00FF, 706D, MP4A
LPCM	LPCM
Vorbis	26447, 674F
FLAC	f1ac
WavPack
Musepack
AMR	FE, samr
True Audio	77a1
Microsoft ADPCM	2, 17
IMA ADPCM	11, 61, 62, AMVA
Creative ADPCM	200
G.726	45
Mu-law	7, 6c75, ULAW
A-law	ALAW
MS GSM	49
TrueSpeech
QDM2	QDM2
MACE3	MAC3
MACE6	MAC6
RealAudio v1/v2	345F3431, 385F3832
Intel Music Coder (IMC)	1025
Atrac3	270
Nellymoser	NELL
WMA7	160
WMA8	161
DivX WMA	161, 353
Speex
Video encoding (VFW)
Xvid MPEG-4
H.264 (x264)
Lagarith
Huffyuv
Audio encoding (ACM)
MP3
AC3
		B A S I C	S T A N D A R D	F U L L	M E G A	6 4 - B I T