FLAC
A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompression
23 Alternatives To FLAC
AC3Filter
AC3Filter is a high quality free audio decoder and processor filter.
Apple Lossless
Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc.

DScaler
DScaler 4 is a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation…
Elecard Converter Studio Pro
Enterprise solution that provides high-performance transcoding and packaging of SD, HD and UHD video files with perfect video quality compatible with adaptive streaming formats.

FLAC Frontend
[No longer maintained, but downloadable]
Flip4Mac
Play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) on your Mac using QuickTime or a web browser
Icaros
Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions
K-Lite Codec Pack
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools.
Kawaii Codec Pack
Tired of bad media playback? I bring to you the ultimate solution: KCP
LAME
LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.
LAVfilters
LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better…
Matroska
The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can…
MysticThumbs
MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows.
Nero Streaming Player
Nero Streaming Player is a streaming offering application that supports for the streaming, transferring and enjoying multimedia files over multiple devices.

Opus Interactive Audio Codec
Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
Pictus
Pictus is a fast, free image viewer that enables Windows to see thumbnails of supported formats, such as PSD. Give it a spin today!
SageThumbs
SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats…
Satsuki Decoder Pack
Satsuki Decoder Pack is an audio/video auto-installable filters and decoder for windows…
Vorbis
Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality…

WavPack
WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a…
Xvid
Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative…
xy-VSFilter
Based on VSFilter 2.39 Guliverkli2 with various important changes from VSFilter 2.41 MPC-HC