Gordian Knot Codec Pack

Codec packs are bundles of video and audio components that boost you system’s capabilities to play an extensive collection of formats. There are some remarkable codec packs on the market today, but the most fortunate choice ought to include the basic video and audio codecs that will facilitate watching or listening to the most popular media formats.

Names such as K-Lite or Combined Community Codec Pack are bound to sound familiar to the average user and will always make top five, due to the impressive number of filters they contain. But even so, smaller and less popular codec packs will still stay in the charts, because they simply sport a less complicated architecture and they only bear the strictly necessary codecs.

This is also the case of Gordian Knot Codec Pack, a less resource demanding video and audio codec pack. The list of components encased in this bundle includes DivX, XviD, AC3Filter, ffdshow, OGG Filter, Vorbis, Matroska, VSFilter, Morgan Stream Switcher and Huffyuv. You will be able to select which of these you wish to be deployed on your computer at the beginning of the installation process.

Gordian Knot Codec Pack will launch separate installers for each of the components you have chosen. One obvious disadvantage is that the process will take quite the period of time, especially if you opted for all the components provided by the package. One installation in particular, namely DivX, will offer the Google Toolbar during deployment, but you can skip this step if it bothers you.

After you completed the installations for all the components you have chosen, your system will be equipped with the necessary video and audio technology required to play back media files of various types. Gordian Knot Codec Pack is not the most modern codec bundle there is, but the most important aspect of all is that it’s not being kept up to date and pretty soon it will start losing its charm.