With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter to be able to play any movie on your Windows Vista system.
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arrived on Oct 4, 2007 , tested spyware free
Description of Vista Codec Package v4.5.1
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter to be able to play any movie on your Windows Vista system. It does not contain a media player. It does not associates filetypes. With this package installed you will be able to use any media player (limited only by the players capabilities) to play DVD's, movies and video clips of any format. Streaming video (real and quicktime) is supported in web browsers.This package supports 17 localized installations. The default is English and the installer includes support for the following other languages; Chinese Simplified/Traditional, Japanese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish and Turkish.
Some changes
- improved FLV1 playback
- Add an option to NOT install shortcuts
- update ffdshow 1485ansi (with multi-core patch)
- Improve filetype recognition for WMP11 - Many registry changes (filetype related)
- YOU MUST UNINSTALL your previous version
- DO NOT upgrade with this release
Users have the ability to choose what is installed using the public redistributable or after an unattended install, you can select to remove specific portions without removing the entire package. Future releases will recognize previous releases and are capable of performing upgrade installations.