Vista Codec Package 4.2.2
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented.
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17.1.2007 Vista Codec Package 4.6.6
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented. It does not contain a media player.
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21.5.2008 Vista Codec Package 4.7.0
Codecs have been a problem for most users at one time or another. This is because there has never been an 'out of the box' working solution that the average computer user could install and just have everything work properly from the beginning.
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6.7.2008 Vista Codec Package 4.7.3
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter.
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18.8.2008 Vista Codec Package 5.0.1
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented.
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11.11.2008 Microsoft VC-1 Codec Now a Standard
The VC-1 video codec proposed and developed by Microsoft was officially released by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers on Monday, paving the way for the technology to be used by next-generation DVDs. Microsoft submitted the Windows Media Video 9-based codec for standardization in September 2003.
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4.4.2006 Advanced Vista Codec Package 4.1.9
With Advanced Vista Codec Package installed, you shouldn't need to install any other codec or filter.
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25.11.2006 Codec Pack for Windows XP & Vista
Thanks to marct for the great idea, to have all Codec Pack for XP & Vista on one place.
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1.4.2007Microsoft VC-1 Codec Now a
Standard
The VC-1 video codec proposed
and developed by Microsoft was
officially released by the
Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers on
Monday, paving the way for the
technology to be used by
next-generation DVDs.
Microsoft submitted the
Windows Media Video 9-based
codec for standardization in
September 2003...
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04.04.2006The DivX codec makes a play for set-top boxes
The little codec that could, DivX, announced a series of partnerships today that will use the protocol in set-top boxes for Internet Protocol
Television (IPTV)...
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08.01.2008MPEG-2 Patent Holder, Licensing Agent in High-Def Codec Dispute
The principal licensing agent for MPEG codec technology, MPEG LA, has sued Alcatel-Lucent in Delaware court. Its claim is that Alcatel didn't have
the right to absorb Lucent's IP portfolio - which included patents on MPEG-2 technology - into a new and separate trust, after Lucent had already
made a commitment to provide that technology through MPEG LA...
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07.11.2007Skype unfurls a royalty-free SILK codec
Well-received wideband tech could turn up anywhere
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05.03.2009DivX support, classic Xbox games coming in Fall Dashboard Update
On December 4. Microsoft will unleash the 2007 Fall Dashboard Update on the throngs of waiting Xbox 360 users. While the company has previously
announced many of the features of this new update, a new one has just slipped out: DivX and Xvid support.
In perhaps the biggest
news for tech-minded gamers, codec support for video files will be widened, with Joystiq reporting that this will include MPEG-4 Part 2 video codec
support. "What that basically means is that our users should find that most of their DivX and Xvid files will work because they're under that
umbrella of the MPEG-4 Part 2 codec," Microsoft's Aaron Greenburg
told the site. DivX
and Xvid support has long been a requested feature from people who would like to use their Xbox 360 as a media hub, making this very welcome news.
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30.11.2007Hackers Exploit Bhutto Assassination
Within hours of yesterday's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware makers exploited the breaking news to dupe
users into downloading attack code, security researchers said Friday. Searches for news about Bhutto's killing and the ensuing chaos in Pakistan
listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec), said analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc. For instance, WebSense found
such a site simply by using "benazir" to search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on Blogger.com, Google Inc.'s blog
service, that were spreading the fake codec.
Read full story.....
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30.12.2007Mac Porn Surfers Subject to QT Flaw
Attackers are going after Macintosh computer users who are visiting pornographic web sites, claiming to offer a plug-in that installs a video codec
necessary to play the movie files within QuickTime...
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01.11.2007The history and future of DivX
Davis Freeberg
over at
Zatz Not Funny provides some great analysis on the history and future strategy of DivX. On the company's historical success, Freeberg notes the
importance of creating an eco-system around the DivX codec, both in terms of becoming the preferred format for "grey" content on P2P networks, but
also the way in which the company reached out to consumer electronics manufacturers DVD players, media streamers, PMPs, and more recently
Sony’s PS3 through its DivX certification program. The result is that DivX has become
the consumer facing brand for MPEG4, despite
rival offerings from Apple and Microsoft, for example.
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10.05.2008DivX 6.4
DivX is a package that
includes all the DivX codec,
player, utilities, and
documentation that you need to
play DivX files. DivX codec is
based on the MPEG-4
compression standard. This
codec can reduce an MPEG-2
video (DVD format) to ten
percent of its original size.
DivX is a digital video
compression technology based
on the ISO MPEG-4 standard.
New Features
Include:
- support
for 1080HD
encoding
- faster
multipass
encoding
- better
compression when using the
internal
resize
- adaptive noise
reduction
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04.10.2006Facebook worm still spreading
Early in August, security firms noticed a worm spreading on Facebook through wall posts, claiming to contain a video requiring a new codec to be
installed. Variants of this worm are now being spotted on a weekly basis...
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25.08.2008Media player users beware: move vulns ahead
Security researchers are warning that popular media players offered by Microsoft and AOL are vulnerable to attacks that can completely compromise a
user's PC.
Attack code has already been released for the bug, which has been confirmed in a codec used by older versions of
Windows Media Player, made by Microsoft, and in AOL's Winamp. A Symantec researcher has warned that users of other players may also be at risk
because the vulnerability itself resides in a commonly used MP4 codec produced by a company called 3ivx Technologies.
"The
exploit works by supplying victims with a maliciously formed MP4 file," Raymond Ball wrote for Symantec's
DeepSight Threat Management System. "When a victim unknowingly clicks a link
that appears safe, the MP4 content is delivered, causing the exploit to run."
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11.12.2007Microsoft, Universal Team on
HD DVD
Microsoft and Universal
Studios announced at the
National Association of
Broadcasters Convention in Las
Vegas Monday a collaboration
to use Microsoft technologies
in upcoming HD DVD discs,
including the VC-1 codec and
iHD...
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24.04.2006Microsoft indemnifies Novell Moonlight users
The Novell-sponsored project porting the Silverlight cross-browser plug to Linux is getting patent protection from Microsoft, indemnifying users from
aggressive patent holders and litigators such as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Microsoft will provide
codecs worth $1m to every user downloading
Moonlight from Novell under a special patent covenant, separate to the
companies' broader - and controversial - patent protection and interoperability deal of November 2005.
Miguel de Icaza, Novell
developer platform vice president leading Moonlight, told a panel on open source at Microsoft's Mix 08 conference anyone who downloads a codec from
Novel under the patent covenant is covered. "If you download from a third party, you probably have to speak to Microsoft," he added.
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07.03.2008Windows Imaging Component Code Samples and Tools
This download includes sample code that demonstrates how to use the WIC APIs to create WIC-compliant CODECs and WIC-enabled applications. With this
information, ISVs will be able create CODECs that are registered in Windows and will be automatically recognized by WIC-enabled applications. This
download includes both the source code and compiled binaries for the included samples. Both x86 & x64 version of the binaries are included.
The samples included in this download are:
- WICExplorer “ An application which utilizes the WIC API to load still
images and read their metadata.
- AITCODEC “ A custom CODEC that demonstrates how to create a WIC-compliant CODEC. This sample
includes documentation on the custom AITCODEC.
- WICGrinder “ An application used to test WIC-compliant CODECs. This sample
includes documentation on using WICGrinder to customize tests.
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27.11.2007Mufin music finder enters public beta, adds widgets
The labs that brought you the MP3 codec have moved their Mufin music-finder project into the public-beta phase, adding two widgets options to their
collection...
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22.11.2008Mozilla, Opera look to make video on the Web easier
New features in the Firefox and Opera browsers could make it less complex and cheaper for people to incorporate video into their Web sites,
representatives of Mozilla and Opera say.
Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web
pages. As long as the browsers support a video's specific codec, or encoding method, the browsers will then be able to play the video without
launching third-party enabling software, said Chris Double, a Mozilla engineer. Mozilla and Opera are also working to support the royalty-free video
codec Ogg Theora.
Video on the Web is a fractured mix of proprietary formats, encoded using systems from four main vendors. Apple
offers QuickTime, Microsoft offers Windows Media, Adobe offers Flash and RealNetworks has RealPlayer. A user must have a plug-in from each of those
vendors if they want to play video in that vendor's format.
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08.12.2007DivX Seeking Beta Testers
Video codec company DivX is
seeking individuals to help
beta test some "secret
stuff" the company is
concocting in its labs.
Although it's not saying what
software (or hardware)
products it plans to test,
DivX has built a streaming
media set-top box code-named
GejBox, after DivX's creator...
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11.06.2007Microsoft and Intel to Support
HD-DVD
JUST IN Microsoft and
Intel are expected on Tuesday
to pledge their support for
HD-DVD, the next-generation
DVD format created by Toshiba.
Microsoft had previously
remained neutral in the
standards war between HD-DVD
and Sony-backed Blu-ray, as
the company's VC-1 Windows
Media Video codec will be
included with both formats...
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27.09.2005Media player users beware: more vulns ahead
Security researchers are warning that popular media players offered by Microsoft and AOL are vulnerable to attacks that can completely compromise a
user's PC. Attack code has already been released for the bug, which has been confirmed in a codec used by older versions of Windows Media Player,
made by Microsoft, and in AOL's Winamp. A Symantec researcher has warned that users of other players may also be at risk because the vulnerability
itself resides in a commonly used MP4 codec produced by a company called 3ivx Technologies.
"The exploit works by supplying victims
with a maliciously formed MP4 file," Raymond Ball wrote for Symantec's DeepSight Threat Management System. "When a victim unknowingly
clicks a link that appears safe, the MP4 content is delivered, causing the exploit to run."
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11.12.2007Microsoft Technology Brings HD DVD to the Mainstream
Today at the 2007
International Consumer
Electronics Show (CES),
Microsoft Corp. showcased the
growing momentum behind HD DVD
through its contribution of
core technologies. Microsoft
helped deliver the
highest-quality video with the
VC-1 codec, advanced
interactivity with HDi™, and a
streamlined and affordable
platform for player
manufacturers through the use
of Microsoft® Windows® CE
6.0.
More than 150
HD DVD titles were authored
this year with the VC-1
encoding tool, due to its
outstanding picture quality.
Titles such as "Batman
Begins" from Warner Home
Video, "King Kong" from
Universal Studios Home
Entertainment and "Mission:
Impossible III" from
Paramount Home Entertainment
were all recognized by the
industry for their reference
quality while still allowing
more room on the discs for
advanced interactive features
enabled by Microsoft's HDi
technology. As an official
SMPTE standard, VC-1 is
already the codec of choice
for three major Hollywood
studios, and it is also being
used for digital downloads by
leading services including the
Xbox Live® Marketplace for
high-definition videos.
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