Software of the Week : Storm Codec - to play all kinds of video and audio formats

We have started software of the week to provide one good software every week to our users and this will be a free ware to the most of the time but not compulsorily.Today's software is Storm codec; we all faced some problem playing the video files in our computer at some time or the other and we then wished that there could be some universal player which will take care of all the video formats and which will not have any divx errors, and other errors. Storm codec solves this problem exactly. It has all the features that a normal computer user expects.

Description: Storm codec is an add-on to the windows media player and it enhances the service provided by the windows media player. It supports all most all the formats viz most popular media files, streams and VCD/DVD, it can play RealMedia, QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (DivX, XviD, 3ivx, MP4, FFGS, H264...), AC3/DTS/LPCM, VP3/VP6, HDTV, Theora, TTL2, APE, FLAC, AAC, Subtitles, OGG/OGM, Matroska, MPC, Voxware, FLC, 3GP/AMR... without any other Media Player (But latest Windows Media Player it recommended)

Key features of Storm codec:

• RealPlayer 10.5 decodings cores & ActiveX 6.0.12.1698
• RealMedia Splitter 1.0.1.1
• QuickTime 7.13 decodings cores
• & ActiveX (contains AMR/3GP & H264 in the MOV support)
• Flash Player 9 r16
• Kopei's XviD Codec 1.10 (Build 20.05123 million)
• ffdshow MPEG-4 Codec 20.060526 million (contains realaac, liba52, libdts, libtremor and so on)
• On2 VP7 Codec 7.0.10.0
• On2 VP6 Codec 6.4.2.0
• Ligos Indeo Codec 3.2 - 5.2
• GV Codec 1.2
• CyberLink Video/SP Filter (ATI) 6.0.0.1625
• NVidia PureVideo Decoder 1.02-223
• RatDVD Decoder 0.78.1444
• OGG Splitter 1.0.0.0
• AAC Parser 1.1
• CoreFLAC Audio Decoder & Source DirectShow Filter 0.4.0.46
• DS Monkey's Audio Filter 1.0 + APE Audio Lib 3.99u4
• SHN to WAV Filter 20.051008 million
• TTA DirectShow Splitter 1.0.0.203
• RadLight MPC DirectShow Filter 1.0.0.3
• OGG Vorbis MSACM Codec
• Voxware Metasound & Metavoice ACM Codec
• Haali's Splitter 20.060707 million
• PMP Splitter 1.0.0.8
• VSFilter (Direct VobSub) 2.37
• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0
• G.Spot 2.60 B00

Requirements:

• P II / Celeron / K6-2 400MHz
• 128M RAM
• 80M Free HD Space
• A Display Card (AGP or PCIE) with at least 4M Video RAM
• AC97 or HD-Audio compatible soundcard
• DirectX 8 or higher (DirectX 9 is highly recommend)
• Screen at least at 640×480×16Bit

The disadvantages of Storm codec:

• It eats your ram and also uses your CPU, I suggest to use this codec only if you have ram more than 256 MB.
• The time taken by the mplayer (installed as a part of storm codec) supports all formats but takes a it more time to load than the usual players.
• There won't be history of the files played by the mplayer.
• No skins are available, so you have to bare the default blue skin( infact it is a good skin)
• There are a few files that are not played by storm codec also.

Download link: This is a freeware and you can download it from this site.
The official site is in Chinese language you can see it by translating it into your regional language

Extras : Alternatives to the storm codec are klite codec, all in one codecs.