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Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of Video and Audio Codecs and tools that are required to Encode / Decode (i.e., PLAY) Audio and Video files

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.

WECP is clean and compact, it has no spyware / adware / or viruses, it's easy to use and even easier to install / uninstall and it's published under the GNU GPL open source license so it's 100% free. But more importantly, it was especially designed to fix the many errors and software conflicts caused by other codec packs which routinely install obsolete or overlapping codecs, and it's guaranteed to keep your to keep your computer up-to-date with the latest software upgrades.
Which formats does W.E.C.P supports?

WECP is designed as a 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, AVC, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, M4A, MPC, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV/MKA, MTM, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, WavPack, ATRAC3, XviD, XM, WV, UMX and many more formats so you could play any video / audio file with your favorite media player or with the free and wonderful Media Player Classic player that comes included with WECP
You can free download Windows Essentials Codec Pack 2.3b now.

What's New in This Release:

Bugfixes

* Important security fix: Buffer overflow vulnerability was fixed
* Fixes to ffdshow\'s remote API
* GDI resource leak fix
* Subtitle fixes:
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o Fixed missing character at the end of line with non-UTF8 encoding in embedded subtitles
o When activating SSA tags within SRT subs, default placement (with no tag) was not correct
o Subtitle stability fix for random crashes
* Workaround for crashes in applications that use the Windows Media Player SDK
* Wrong color fix for Fraps v5
* The Grab filter was producing a black right border when saving PNG images having a width which was not a multiple of 16
* OSD / Info & CPU: Show correct value in \"Movie FPS\"
* Crash due to a language file size limit was fixed

New and improved features

* Added support for E-AC3 decoding (Dolby Digital Plus)
* Added support for DTS-HD decoding (core DTS only)
* Added support for Dolby TrueHD and MLP decoding (full TrueHD decoding or AC3 can pass-through depending on config)
* New deinterlacer: yadif (Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter)
* Updated libavcodec with the latest code from the FFmpeg project
* Volume normalization:
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o One-pass normalization added. This mode is used to reach the highest possible loudness with minimum of possible artifacts
o Improved normalization, the probability of clipping has been decreased
* Added support for S/PDIF sample rates other than 48kHz: Pass-through of 44.1kHz AC3/DTS streams plays back correctly now
* Dynamic range compression level for AC3 and E-AC3 sources can now be set between 0 and 100%
* AC3/DTS pass-through settings are now based on presets
* DVD playback support by libavcodec
* Tweaked compatibility list reporting: Executable names that are not yet in the default whitelist/blacklist are now reported only
* Unicode support for FFDShowRemoteAPI
* Language file size limit was increased, all language files are now encoded as UTF-16LE+BOM
* Various OSD updates:
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o Buffer limit increased from 256 to 2048 characters
o HTML encoding support similar to SRT files
o Added SSA support for OSD and combobox to select the format (HTML/SSA)
* SRT files with tags support: SSA tags support in SRT files and HTML tags support in SSA files
* Improved compatibility with certain MPEG2 Transport / Program Stream demultiplexers (e.g. DVBSource, Elecard) for files that contain H.264 video
* Support H.264 digital television playback in DVBViewer
* Improved H.264 seeking
* Added an option to deinterlace only frames flagged as \"interlaced\"
* Enhanced interlacing options allow to choose the method (auto, weave, bob) as well as the field order (auto, top field, bottom field)
* Color space conversion: Added option \"Force progressive\" and \"Force interlace\"
* Flag telecined frames as progressive (libmpeg2)
* H.264: Correct field order, interlace/progressive flags are decoded

System Requirements:

No special requirements.

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