Microsoft Media Player Codecs For Windows 10

These codecs are for example used by the following applications:

Some of these files are no longer included or updated with Windows 10, and Microsoft now charges for some of these once free apps. We noticed some websites and video tutorials recommend you download VLC Media Player, but that is an option, not a solution to the problem. Windows 10 Media Player Codecs free download - Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player (64-bit), Windows Media Player 12, and many more programs. A workaround to all this trouble is installing a codec pack that already has everything a media player needs to correctly load movies and music. Tailor-made for Windows 10 users, Windows 10 Codec.

Movies&TV (a.k.a. Films&TV)
Windows Photo Viewer
Windows Media Player (can also use DirectShow codecs)
Windows Explorer
Adobe Premiere

Media Player Codec Pack was created to make installing major multimedia codec's, filters, plug-ins and splitters for players easy Versions: Standard Plus Lite How to set file associations in Microsoft Windows 10. Get the latest Media Player downloads from the Official Microsoft Download Center.

Below you can download installers for several codecs. You can also get these exact same codecs in the Windows 10 store.

These codecs may fix:
Error 0xc00d005212 This item was encoded with a format that's not supported

HEVC video (a.k.a. H.265):

There are two versions of this codec. A free one and one that you can buy from Microsoft for $1 in the Windows 10 store. The free version only works on systems that have a graphics card (GPU) that is capable of hardware accelerated decoding of HEVC video.

Download [for 64-bit Windows] [free version] [requires a GPU capable of decoding HEVC]
Download [for 32-bit Windows] [free version] [requires a GPU capable of decoding HEVC]

Download in Windows 10 Store [$1]