The Advanced Codecs contains a full suite of decoders with a GUI controller for the installed codecs. The Standard codec release only contains LAV filters and xy-VSFilter with a GUI giving full control.
Things the Shark pack does that other packs cannot do:
- Full color thumbnails including FLV's and 10bit MKV's. (also allows users to select at what point by percentage to grab the thumbnail)
- Enable the Preview Pane for ALL newly enabled filetypes such as MKV and FLV.
- Explorer properties are displayed for non native filetypes such as MKV and FLV
- Updated often - and has update notification builtin
- Allow use of the PowerDVD decoders for 32bit LiveTV in Media Center.
- Support playback of MKV files on Extenders and on the Xbox One.
- Support the use of the Play To function for MKV and FLV files.
- Support playback of MOD audio files and M4A files containing ALAC
- Supports playlist creation for use in Media Center
- Allow users to Enable/Disable codecs installed on their system
- Functionality such as Win7DSFilterTweaker builtin.
- Support 'Add to Windows Media Player List' using rightclick on all files such as MKV.
The following filetypes are enabled and supported by the installation of Shark's Codec Solutions:
- amr
- mpc
- ofr
- divx
- mka
- ape
- flac
- evo
- flv
- m4b
- mkv
- ogg
- ogv
- ogm
- rmvb
- xvid
All of the above filetypes can be queued to the Windows Media Player Playlist using a right-click.
What's New
- Update LAV filters 0.76.1.0
- Update MPC-BE filters 1.6.2.6926
- Update MediaInfo DLL 21.9
- Update Icaros 3.2.1
- Update VSFilter (DirectVobSub) 1.5.7.53
- Fix broken Movies & TV App and MS Store errors
- Fully functional Save / Restore settings
- Remember monitor and screen positioning
- Auto Update all files directly from within the GUI
- Live Synchronization of 32/64bit Applications for shared settings
- Improve WMV handling when LAV is used for playback
Note: Please uninstall your old version before installing a newer release.
