While it is possible to play a certain number of files right away in the Windows operating systems, others are not supported by the default applications right out of the box. You can for instance play wmv videos directly, while you won’t be able to do the same with mkv files.
If you want to play unsupported formats, you have three options to do just that. You can try and convert the video format into a format supported by the operating system. That’s not an ideal solution though, as it takes time and system resources to convert, and becomes less practicable the more files you have that you need converted.
The second option is to install a program that is supporting the file format. As far as video is concerned, you could install the VLC media player which supports virtually all popular media formats.
But third party software does not help you if you prefer to use Windows Media Player or another software that ships with the operating system. That’s when you need to install codecs to add support for the formats system-wide. You could go codec hunting now to find the codecs that you need, or you could install a codec pack instead which installs codecs for all the popular formats in one go.
The first Windows 8 Codec Pack has just been released by the same author who has created codec packs for previous Windows operating systems as well. Pay close attention to the installation dialog though, as it will install third party software on your system if you do not uncheck it during setup.
The codec package adds support for a variety of media files, including divx, flac, flv, mkv, rmvb, xvid and more than a dozen other formats. These are system-wide codecs which means that any program can utilize them to play the files.
You can download the latest version of the codecs pack from the developer website.
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