Welcome to the QuickTime third-party component page. With QuickTimes open architecture, third-party developers can create components, or plug-ins to QuickTime. These third-party components expand the functionality of QuickTime, allowing QuickTime to play additional media types. If you encounter media that requires the installation of a third-party QuickTime component, please follow the link below to the third-party developers web site to see if it is available for download.
Note: If you are using a Macintosh with an Intel processor be sure to visit the component developer’s web site to download a Universal Binary Component that is compatible with your Intel-based Macintosh. PowerPC-based components will not work in QuickTime on Macintosh with Intel processors.
QuickTime Player supports standard CEA-608 closed captions. Version 7.1.6 or higher is required to playback media with closed captions. Download the latest QuickTime version.
The latest DivX Codec (Win or Mac) lets you play DivX video in QuickTime Player and also consists of improved tools for the utmost encoding quality and performance, making it the best choice to convert or create your own DivX video content.
The Xvid component for QuickTime allows users to play & encode Xvids in QuickTime Player. Xvid is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard.
ZyGoVideos great looking, smooth playing, web-video codec is now available for Windows, Mac PPC and Mac Intel machines. ZyGoVideo provides high-quality video at prevalent modem rates. The ZyGoVideo component adds encoding capabilities to QuickTime Pro.
The ACT-L3 codec enables users to bring ACT-L3 into an Apple QuickTime environment. The combination of Apple QuickTime and ACT-L3 provides a low cost, high quality, high compression solution ideal for electronic field production. The codec works with any application that supports broadcasting or editing in an Apple QuickTime environment.
Autodesks FBX for QuickTime enables QuickTime as a 3D viewing solution that supports content from any professional 3D package. With FBX for QuickTime, digital artists can share, view, and interact with 3D content seamlessly, efficiently, and at no cost. Now available for both Mac OS X and Windows.
SheerVideo is a powerful, faster-than-real-time nondestructive codec for production, postproduction, and archival. For uncompressed formats, SheerVideo doubles disk speed, disk capacity, and transmission bandwidth with perfect fidelity, bit-for-bit identical to the original. Supports all standard uncompressed formats: RGB, YCbCr; 4:4:4, 4:2:2; optional alpha; 10bit, 8bit; progressive, interlaced; SD, HD, anyD; NTSC, PAL; 4:3, 16:9, any:any; arbitrary frame rate. Includes Synchromy nondestructive color conversion.
Totally Hips QScript Extension Essentials (QSXE) component allows you to utilize custom wired actions inside your QuickTime movies. Wired actions allow a QuickTime movie to modify and control itself (and other QuickTime movies) via scripts embedded within the movie.
— Store and retrieve data using cookies
— Print directly within your QuickTime movie
— Add video into Panoramic VRs
You can author using this component with LiveStage Professional Totally Hips award winning QuickTime authoring package.M
Totally Hips Audio Visualizations component allows you to visualize audio in the form of a spectrogram, waveform, or spectrum analyzer.
The Audio Visualizations components were developed by Totally Hip Technologies Inc. for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology — Macaulay Library & Bioacoustics Research Program.
You can author using this component with LiveStage Professional Totally Hips award winning QuickTime authoring package.
EnSharpen Video Codec is designed to produce the highest compression possible for screen recording content, while maintaining completely lossless video quality — even through the multiple decompression/recompression cycles in production processes. EnSharpen is perfect for delivering cross-platform software training videos and online learning objects. This component allows playback of EnSharpen encoded movies. For Mac OS9, OSX, and Windows.
REDCODE RAW QuickTime codec supports RT playback in Final Cut Pro and editing of the QuickTime Reference movies generated in camera. The REDCODE RAW QuickTime codec also allows for playback of REDCODE RAW movies directly from QuickTime Player or other QuickTime-enabled applications.
Download K-Lite Codec Pack
There are four different variants of the K-Lite Codec Pack. Ranging from a very small bundle that contains only the most essential decoders to a large and more comprehensive bundle. The global differences between the variants can be found below . Detailed differences can be found on the comparison of abilities and comparison of contents pages.
These codec packs are compatible with Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10. Old versions also with XP.
The packs include both 32-bit and 64-bit codecs, so they work great on both x86 and x64 variants of Windows!
Basic
Small but extremely powerful!
Already contains everything you need to play all common audio and video file formats.
Supports playback of:
- AVI, MKV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, MOV, TS, M2TS, WMV, RM, RMVB, OGM, WebM
- MP3, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, 3GP, AMR, APE, MKA, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack
- DVD and Blu-ray (after decryption)
- and many more audio and video formats!
Provides lots of useful functionality, such as:
- Subtitle display
- Hardware accelerated video decoding
- Audio bitstreaming
- Video thumbnails in Explorer
- File association options
- Broken codec detection
- and much more!
Basic does NOT include a player. So you need to use it together with a DirectShow compatible player such as Windows Media Player. For playback issues with WMP please read our F.A.Q. for solutions.
We recommend using K-Lite Standard, which included MPC-HC as a player.
Standard
Same as Basic, plus:
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC)
This is an excellent player. Highly recommended!
It provides high quality playback and many useful options. - MadVR
An advanced video renderer with high quality upscaling. - MediaInfo Lite
This is a tool for getting details about media files.
This is the recommended variant for the average user. Use this if you don’t know what you need. It already contains everything that you need for playback. The extra components that are included in the larger versions provide no benefit for the majority of users.
Same as Standard, plus:
- DC-Bass Source Mod
For decoding OptimFrog and Tracker audio files (very rare formats). - GraphStudioNext
A tool for creating and testing DirectShow graphs. - Plugin for 3D video decoding (H.264 MVC)
Note: this requires using MPC-HC with madVR, and also a compatible graphics driver. Recent NVIDIA drivers no longer support 3D video (but you could try «3D Fix Manager»).
- A few ACM/VFW codecs such as x264VFW
This type of codec is used by certain video editing/encoding applications for working with AVI files.
These codecs are not used or needed for normal playback.
The codec pack does not magically expand the import abilities of professional editors such as Vegas or Premiere. Those applications usually (only) use their own internal codecs and only support import of specific file formats.
And a few optional extras:
- ffdshow audio/video decoder
An alternative choice for LAV Audio/Video decoder. - ffdshow audio/video processor
This is not something that regular users need. - AC3Filter
An alternative choice for LAV Audio decoder. - Haali Media Splitter
An alternative choice for LAV Splitter. - Haali Matroska Muxer
Note 1: Mega does not allow you to play more formats than Full.
Note 2: The optional extras are not installed unless you explicitly select them.
Note 3: We highly recommend to use the default LAV decoder and splitter. The alternative choices should not be used unless you have a good reason.
Update
Additional updates for the latest version of the codec pack.
This is not a stand-alone installer. This update requires that the latest version of Basic/Standard/Full/Mega is already installed.
Beta versions contain the latest updates and improvements, but they may have small bugs, and have not been tested as well as normal releases.
Only suitable for experienced users who like to try out the latest stuff and want to provide feedback.
Beta versions are available for Basic/Standard/Full/Mega.
Old versions
Are you looking for an older version? Those can be found here.
If the latest version give you a problem, then please report that to us so we can fix it!