Media PC Power Kit
Codecs

A DirectShow Filter for AC3 enabling it to play AVI with AC3 audio tracks, as well as MPEG-2 (DVD). It includes S/PDIF pass-through support, the ability to decode MPEG-2 PES streams and multi-channel output support.

Licence: GNU General Public Licence.
Online: http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/
Operating system: Windows 98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP.
Requires: 450MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 8MB graphics card, DX7.0.

Install instructions: N/A

		Windows

DivX is the most popular media format to come along since MP3 audio, and thus is the most important codec to have installed on any HTPC. It offers full-screen DVD-quality video and its excellent compression results in painless storage.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.divx.com
Operating system: Windows 98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP, Mac OS, Linux.
Requires: 450MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 8MB graphics card, DX7.0.

Install instructions: N/A

		Windows

A DirectShow decoding filter designed to decompress DivX and XviD movies using the libav codec or xvid. It can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders.

Licence: GNU General Public Licence.
Online: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Operating system: Windows 98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP.
Requires: 450MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 8MB graphics card, DX7.0.

Install instructions: N/A

		Windows

Ogg Vorbis is a compressed audio format for mid- to high-quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128kbps/channel. This package consists of four filters: Ogg Splitter (splits Ogg files into the different Ogg streams); Ogg Multiplexer (does the multiplexing of several Ogg streams into a file); Vorbis Encoder (encodes PCM audio to vorbis. CBR and VBR modes) and Vorbis Decoder (decodes vorbis audio to PCM or IEEE float).

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://tobias.everwicked.com/
Operating system: Windows 98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP.
Requires: 450MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 8MB graphics card, DX7.0.

Install instructions: N/A

		Windows

XviD is an open source MPEG4 codec, which a man named Koepi has decided to use as a basis for his own modifications and experiments. Many movie files require this codec in order for them to be played.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.koepi.org/
Operating system: Windows 98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP.
Requires: 450MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 8MB graphics card, DX7.0.

Install instructions: N/A

		Windows