Shark007’s ADVANCED Codecs for Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 (formerly Win7codecs) is an audio and video codec package. The installer will automatically remove most other popular codec releases from your computer before installing this concise yet comprehensive package.

You won’t need to make any adjustments or tweaks to enjoy your media content immediately. Windows Media Player and Media Center will instantly recognize all your files as playable.

4K UHD/ HDR H265/ HEVC and MVC using H264 codecs are activated by default. It does not contain a media player and it does not associate filetypes.

With this package installed you will be able to use any media player, limited only by the players’ capabilities, to play all movies and video clips.

Streaming video is supported in several formats in all popular web browsers.

Users of ADVANCED Codecs have the ability to choose what is installed and where to install it using the public redistributable. After installation you can select to remove specific portions without removing the entire package. You can also re-add the removed items at any time.

ADVANCED Codecs for Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 pack does:

• Full color thumbnails including FLV’s and 10bit MKV’s. (also allows users to select at what point by percentage to grab the thumbnail)
• Enable the Preview Pane for ALL newly enabled filetypes such as MKV and FLV.
• Displays explorer properties for non native filetypes such as MKV and FLV
• Updated often – and has update notification builtin
• Support playback of MKV files on Extenders and on the Xbox One.
• Allow use of the PowerDVD decoders for 32bit LiveTV in Media Center.
• Support use of the LAV filters with the Play To function for MKV files.
• Support playback of MOD audio files and M4A files containing ALAC
• Supports playlist creation for use in Media Center
• Allow users to Enable/Disable codecs installed on their system
• Functionality such as Win7DSFilterTweaker builtin.
• Support ‘Add to Windows Media Player List’ using rightclick on all files such as MKV.
• H264 / AVC, hi10p / HEVC codecs are activated by default for use by all players.

Current releases support 4K, HDR<>SDR, and 3D decoding.

UPGRADE installations are fully functional! (but not recommended)
If you are upgrading to solve an issue, you should UNINSTALL the old version

Changes in ADVANCED Codecs 17.0.0:

• Update LAV filters 0.77.1.1
• Media Player Classic – Black Edition (MPC-BE) filters 1.6.5.23
• Update Icaros 3.3.0-RC1
• Update VSFilter (DirectVobSub) 1.5.7.60
• Update XySubFilter (ASS) 3.0.0.2092
• Add Shark’s MediaInfo Tool 22.9
• Fully functional Save / Restore settings
• Remember monitor and screen positioning
• Auto Update all files directly from within the GUI

Homepage – https://shark007.net/advanced.html

This ADVANCED Codecs for Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 package supports 20 localizations.

The default is English and the installer includes support for the following other languages. Arabic, Chinese Simplified/Traditional, Japanese, Czech, Danish, Dutch. Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian. Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish and Turkish.

Size: 23.5 MB

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To UPGRADE, overwrite the files with newly obtained files,
Or just use the Auto-Update feature on the Help tab and everything gets updated automatically.
Using the Save | Restore settings feature on the Misc TAB,
you can save a current configuration and have it automatically restored, silently, if prefered.