This enables the user to access music and other content more easily and to play video distributed in high-quality MPEG4 video.

Two of the main benefits of this software is that it implements support for the popular MP3 audio format and the latest HD video format, MP4. Installation of this code pack from Windows Media Player 9 therefore expands out considerably the types of encoded media content that the player can decode correctly. The audio files cannot be played successfully unless the media player has the right codec installed. The codecs pack was partly intended to address this by broadening the number of types of audio or video content that would be supported by the Windows Media Player.Ī codec is a package that can decode audio streams which have been encoded a certain way in order to save space.

The software was updated partly in response to the European Commission that previous editions of the Microsoft software breached certain laws in Europe. Windows Media Player 9 Codecs Pack is an update pack for the media player from Microsoft designed for its ninth version.

Media codec pack