Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3 - K-Lite Codec Pack

Having experimented with 'K-lite Mega pack' in order to get RealPlayer working, we have found that it installs Media Player Classic even when this has been deselected in the GUI (this is because Media Player Classic is necessary to play 'streamed' RealMedia files). An option in the future, should anyone want to play RealMedia files, is to install 'Real Alternative lite' [which we now do] which has all of the codecs and includes the Directshow plugin to enable RealMedia content in Windows Media Player. We also lose the ability to play FLAC files (when using the K-Lite Standard rather than K-Lite Mega pack), but there is lots of Internet noise about the version of coreFLAC which they use not working, and as none of our clients use it, or at least have ever asked for it, we are going to leave it for future development.

Run the installer with the command-line parameter -MakeUnattended to create an unattended setup using the "Unattended Install Maker". Complete this wizard. Select those components and settings that you want to use in your unattended install. Two files will be created in the same directory as the installer: klcp_standard_unattended.ini and klcp_standard_unattended.bat To run the unattended setup, simply execute the klcp_standard_unattended.bat file.

K-Lite_Codec_Pack_790_Standard.exe -MakeUnattended

These are the changes we make from the defaults:

• Select Components: 'Profile 2: Default (without player)' [default_no_mpc in .ini]
• Select Start Menu Folder - Select 'Don't create a Start Menu folder' [NoIcons=1 in .ini]
• Select Additional Tasks
  • Settings: deselect 'Reset all settings to their defaults'
  • ffdshow configuration
  • Hide systray icons [ffhideicons in .ini]
  • Enable volume normalisation [ffnormalize in .ini]
  • Haali Media Splitter configuration: Hide systray icon [haali_hide_icon in .ini]
• Select the player(s) for which you would like to create file associations:
• [ ] Media Player Classic
• [*] Windows Media Player
• [ ] BS.Player
• [ ] ZoomPlayer
• [ ] The KMPlayer
• Select the file extensions that you want to play with Windows Media Player:
• Video file extensions: 'Select all video'
• Audio file extensions: 'Select all audio'
• Thumbnails - 'Select all'
• Speaker configuration: 'Auto-detect during installation' [Speakers=auto in .ini]

Having experimented with 'K-lite Mega pack' in order to get RealPlayer working, we have found that it installs Media Player Classic even when this has been deselected in the GUI (this is because Media Player Classic is necessary to play 'streamed' RealMedia files). An option in the future, should anyone want to play RealMedia files, is to install 'Real Alternative lite' [which we now do] which has all of the codecs and includes the Directshow plugin to enable RealMedia content in Windows Media Player. We also lose the ability to play FLAC files (when using the K-Lite Standard rather than K-Lite Mega pack), but there is lots of Internet noise about the version of coreFLAC which they use not working, and as none of our clients use it, or at least have ever asked for it, we are going to leave it for future development.

Run the installer with the command-line parameter -MakeUnattended to create an unattended setup using the "Unattended Install Maker". Complete this wizard. Select those components and settings that you want to use in your unattended install. Two files will be created in the same directory as the installer: klcp_standard_unattended.ini [we called ours klite-settings.ini]] and klcp_standard_unattended.bat To run the unattended setup, simply execute the klcp_standard_unattended.bat file.

K-Lite_Codec_Pack_790_Standard.exe -MakeUnattended

These are the changes we make from the defaults:

• Select Components: 'Profile 2: Default (without player)'
• Select Start Menu Folder - Select 'Don't create a Start Menu folder'
• Select Additional Tasks
  • Settings: deselect 'Reset all settings to their defaults'
  • ffdshow configuration
  • Hide systray icons
  • Enable volume normalisation
• Select the player(s) for which you would like to create file associations:
• [ ] Media Player Classic
• [*] Windows Media Player
• [ ] BS.Player
• [ ] ZoomPlayer
• [ ] The KMPlayer
• Select the file extensions that you want to play with Windows Media Player:
• Video file extensions:
• QuickTime
• RealMedia
• Audio file extensions:
• Ogg
• MPEG4 Audio
• Speaker configuration: '2.0 (Stereo)' [maybe we should use 'Auto-detect during installation']