'Essential' Windows Software?

[GommeInc]

Does media player come with all the codecs. I used to use Media Player but I was sick of getting videos with media player and other programs that wouldn't play. VLC seems to be able to play every video I've thrown at it.

You can download them, but can't for the life of me remember if it did it automatically :/

[N!ck]

Does media player come with all the codecs. I used to use Media Player but I was sick of getting videos with media player and other programs that wouldn't play. VLC seems to be able to play every video I've thrown at it.

MPC-HC comes with quite a lot of them. I've never had an issue.