I have had several people ask me just how am I going to replace QuickTime? If I decide to remove something from my system as with QuickTime and there is no solution I do without. Personally I feel no QuickTime Movie is worth leaving this third level plugin threat in ones machine that could allow someone to take it over without being patched.

A friend Baz Peracha recommended I check out this product, which simply adds the codecs to Media Player. I have refused for some time to install Real Audio due to the problems it has created in the past. This actually works as a great free cure to all these issues.

With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats. This package is mainly for power users and people who do their own encodings.

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files.  Get it here