Re: Comment on the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack

de BoB 04/14/2006 07:34

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:29:50 -0700, "Daze N. Knights"
<daze@microchip.com> wrote:

>George wrote:
>> At someone's prompting, I have created a new thread with this question.
>> I have written a review of the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack at:
>>
>> http://georgeh123.blogspot.com/2005/08/video-player-with-codecs-and-tools-k.html
>>
>> Someone left the following comment on my site and I was wondering if
>> everyone on this forum agrees:
>>
>> i really don't think you should recommend Klite or any other megacodec
>> packs.
>>
>> klite works by what i like to call the brute force method... it's just
>> a pack that installs every available codec.
>
>Personally, I have been using K-Lite Mega Codec Pack for a few years now
>and have been very happy with it. My only real gripe is that it doesn't
>uninstall very cleanly, but I deal with that by installing and
>uninstalling each consecutive version with Total Uninstall. And the size
>of a 33MB setup file may be a real issue for someone with a 2GB
>harddrive, but . . .

My test install discovered over 2,000 reg entries with K-lite. It
sure isn't 'Lite' in that respect. Uninstalled. WMP9 came with
everything I need, but use Koolplaya and MPClassic for most uses.

BoB