CCCP Codec Pack
The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack. Why CCCP? Because it achieves as much as possible with as little as possible. Other codec packs tend to either randomly not work, break the system, or install far too much cruft. With the CCCP, you know that when you install it properly, it just works. You don’t need to mess around in the options to get it to work, and chances are it will resolve any other conflicts on install as well.
CCCP was invented so you can “Uninstall everything else, install the pack and live happily ever after”. That being said, for the adventurous there are pages of options available to tweak if you feel like it.
CCCP can play a wide variety of video files, but remember that CCCP’s goal isn’t to decode everything. Instead it aims to support all sensible releases. Here’s the complete list of formats that CCCP enables you to play:
Containers:
AVI – including multiple audio streams and softsubs
MKV
MP4 – including partial MOV support
FLV (Flash Video container)
TS (MPEG Transport Stream)
3GP
OGM & Ogg
Video codecs:
MPEG-1 – comes with Windows
MPEG-2 – including DVD playback
MPEG-4 ASP
Xvid
DivX (all versions)
Generic/Others (3ivx, lavc, etc.)
MPEG-4 AVC – better known as H.264
WMV & VC-1 – mostly comes with Windows, see below
VP6F (Flash Video)
Theora
H.263+
Audio codecs:
MP3, MP2 and MP1
AC3
DTS
AAC
Vorbis
FLAC – no DirectShow .flac splitter included,
TTA
WavPack
AMR
LPCM – on some DVDs, more common on HD-DVD & BluRay
IMA ADPCM
Subtitle formats
SRT
Vobsub (.idx + .sub)
SSA / ASS
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