Jul 25 2008
Update Your Video and Audio Codecs For Media Players On Windows Vista
Without third party codec support, Windows Media Player 11 (and even Windows Media Center) that comes in the default installation of Windows Vista operating system is truly lame. And even though it deserves merits for its sleek design, it still lags behind even to opensource media players. I once hailed Media Player Classic to be the best media player in Windows Vista, but since I pity much Windows’ media player home court, I sought a way to beef it up functionality-speaking – and here’s how.
By default, Windows Media Player 11 cannot play many kinds of media files which is truly disappointing. But there’s a way to solve this: you only need to download third-party video and audio codecs or update your existing ones. Codecs, which in full term means “compressor-decompressor,” is a way video and audio files are shrunk to relatively small file sizes with a little loss to none of its video and sound quality.
So, let’s get started and upgrade your Windows Media Player 11. Among all video codecs I’ve found on the Internet, the best one that suits WMP 11 especially when you are on Windows Vista is the latest versions of Vista Codec Packages by Shark007. It is one of the most active video codec packages to give you the best media playback functionality. As of this writing, the latest version is 4.7.2 for 32-bit Windows Vista (15.3 MB) and version 1.5.1 for 64-bit (5.88 MB). These versions are far better than before so download the right one and install it.
After installation, try playing some video files that didn’t play before and you’ll be surprised to watch them with glory on Windows Media Player and Media Center. Finally, other than media file playback, there are still lots of cool features hidden inside Vista Codec Package (to let you know). I will write about them in my future posts so stand by.
This is great, I was just talking about this with my son who uses Media player daily and often has troubles like these, this will really help him.
Thanks
I’m great to hear that. Windows Media Player is a loser by default. With these codecs, it will be beefed up.
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Why can this download not just simply be available right here? Why do I needs to navigate to another site only to find that I still need to navigate to yet another site and again only to find it has all kind of problems? Come on guys, if you want to help, help us? Don’t make it more complicated?
l need codec for my window media player, also l want to know how to convert wmp, mpg e.t.c to Mp3 or Mp4
great link, the dl worked like a charm, thanks!
Thank you sooooooo much! You are great! this really works and i am watching and listening to everything I pretty much like! Thanks again!