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 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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1.4.2007 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 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008Microsoft 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.
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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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11.12.2007Users Fuming Over Vista Audio Driver Glitch
Several users running Windows Vista with SP1 installed who recently downloaded an audio driver for through Windows Update say the update disables
their machines' audio functionality.
The update for IDT (Formerly Sigmatel)'s high definition sound and is called "IDT High
Def Codec," according to
several
users on a Dell customer forum, who claim that installing the update results in a "Code 10" Error after rebooting, as well as the loss of audio.
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03.05.2008Microsoft, 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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