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Supported Coding formats: Audio - FLAC, ALAC, APE, DTS, MP3, AAC, WMA, AMR, AC3, etc. Supported OS: Windows 10 & macOS Big Sur beta or earlier. 1 5KPlayer – Free Multimedia Player with Inbuilt Codec Pack Top 3 Free Codec Media Player for Windows & Mac Hence, we list top 3 codec players here for you to choose from. As a consequence, finding a powerful codec media player is imperative to play any common codecs. For example, outdated codecs are hardly supported by the newer hardware or software, and older media players barely can't play codecs in recent days. However, there are hundreds of audio and video codecs and no doubt the variety of codecs will cause compatibility issues especially to video music playback. The word codec is actually a portmanteau of 'compressor-decompressor', so codec is a program created to encode or decode the video and audio from files, streams and broadcasts, so that your media player or computer can understand and play. Video codecs: x264 (only an encoder), OpenH264, x265, Xvid, libvpx, FFmpeg codecs, Lagarith, libtheora, Dirac, Huffyuv, Daala, Thor, Turing, libaomĪudio codecs: FLAC, LAME, ToolAME/TwoLAME, Musepack, Speex, CELT, libopus, libvorbis, iLBC, iSAC, TTA, WavPack, Bonk, Apple Lossless, Fraunhofer FDK AAC, FFmpeg, FAAD2, libgsm, opencore-amr, liba52, libdca, Codec2. To see the whole list of codecs, please refer to Wikipedia: List of Codecs. WAX (Part of the Windows Media Series), FFmpeg MPEG-4 Part 2 (MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile)ģivx, DivX, Elecard MPEG-4 Decoder/Encoder, libavcodec, HDX4, Nero Digital, Xvid

Libaom, SVT-AV1, rav1e (encoder only), dav1d (decoder only), libgav1 (decoder only) X265 (encoder only), UHDcode (decoder only, uses x265 to read HEVC encoded files), FFmpeg (decoder only, uses x265 for encoding) X264 (encoder only), FFmpeg (decoder only, uses x264 for encoding) LAME (encoding only), FFmpeg (decoding only), libmad (decoding only), Audiocogs (decoding only)įAAC (encoder) and FAAD (decoder), FFmpeg, iTunes, Nero AAC Codec, VisualOn AAC Encoder,Fraunhofer FDK AAC, libaacplusįFmpeg (decoding only), FFmpeg with OpenCORE libraries, AndroidįFmpeg, liba52 (decoding only), Aften (encoding only), libavc Libopus, FFmpeg (decoding and experimental encoding) Libdca (decoder only), FFmpeg (decoder only) List of Compression Formats & Related Codecs

Download codecs for windows media player