I've heard of (and even sometimes used) video players like VLC when Windows Media Player prompts me to download "new codecs", but I've also heard people talk about codec packs like K-Lite, Shark007, ...

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC ...

VLC, one of the best-known catch-all media players around has been updated to version 2.0. The update offers a vastly improved OS X layout as well as experimental Blu-ray support, faster decoding, and ...

My favorite free, open-source media player just got a major update. Video LAN Client, known to many as VLC Player, is now up to version 2.0 Twoflower. This update includes thousands of big fixes, ...