K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.

There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: Basic, Standard and Full.
* K-Lite Codec Pack Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats. It is small enough to fit on a single floppy. Also great for including on your movie CDs.
* K-Lite Codec Pack Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
* K-Lite Codec Pack Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for the various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

Changes in K-Lite Codec Pack 3.00 :
- Updated ffdshow to revison 1109
- Added CoreAVC [version 1.3.0.0]
- Removed LAME CLI/DLL
- Removed LameDropXPd
- Removed OggDropXPd
- All three above are now available as separate installers
- Removed MP3 Source
- Removed ShoutCast Source
- Removed FLAC filters
- Removed Monkey's Audio filters
- Added DC-Bass Source [version 1.00]. This filter replaces the above four removed audio filters. It additionally adds support for the following audio formats: True Audio (.tta), Alac (.alac) and Tracker (.mod .it .xm .umx. s3m .mtm .mo3)
- Removed MMCompView
- Updated MusePack decoder to version 1.0.0.4
- Added RadLight OptimFROG audio decoder [version 1.0.0.1]
- Added CDDA Reader [version 1.0.0.1]
- Added CDXA Reader [version 1.0.0.1]