Combined Community Codec Pack

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Combined Community Codec Pack
Image:CCCP logo.png
The CCCP logo
Latest release 15 / January 24, 2008
OS Microsoft Windows
Genre Filter pack
License Freeware
Website http://www.cccp-project.net/

The Combined Community Codec Pack, more commonly referred to as the CCCP, is a filter pack for Microsoft Windows designed originally for the playback of anime fansubs. The CCCP is developed and maintained by members of various fansubbing groups. The name is a pun on the Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (Soyuz Sovyetskikh Sotsialistichyeskikh Respublik), the Russian name for the USSR; the Cyrillic name for the USSR is initialized CCCP, however it transliterates to SSSR.

As of 2006, the CCCP is now the official Matroska playback solution on Windows, having superseded the Matroska Playback Pack.[1]

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[edit] Purpose

According to its official website, CCCP was created to meet the following:

  • Alleviate the major problems caused by conflicting codec packs
  • Provide a video media playback standard for the anime community
  • Be capable of playing back most common video media files and formats
  • Be easy to install and uninstall—even for users with no technical knowledge

The pack is small and compact, containing only what is needed for most videos; it intentionally disables support for many codecs it considers unnecessary. It thus can potentially avoid problems caused by inappropriate combinations of filters by providing an all-inclusive playback solution. To view a CCCP-approved video, one must simply theoretically uninstall all other codec packs and install the CCCP. This philosophy leads to some disadvantages; since many formats are not enabled by default, they have to be manually toggled by the user if needed. Additionally, unlike many competing packs, CCCP is designed around decoding rather than encoding, and as such doesn't include many video encoders that other packs do.

The CCCP is made only for the Microsoft Windows operating system and works with 2000/XP/Vista.

[edit] Result

In 2006, On2 began recommending the CCCP as a simple decoding solution to feed video and audio to their Flix encoding application.[2] The CCCP staff recommends to not use On2's included registry patch, but rather turn on or off any necessary codecs within the CCCP settings menu.

[edit] Technical details

[edit] Contents

Note: Installing all of these separately will not have the same effect as installing the CCCP because the ffdshow build (the core video/audio decoding software) is customized and so are all of the components' settings.[3]

[edit] Supported formats

[edit] Notable unsupported formats

[edit] References

  1. ^ CCCP FAQ. Retrieved on 2006-09-22.
  2. ^ On2 Windows FAQ. Retrieved on 2006-12-16.
  3. ^ Advanced FAQ - CCCP. Retrieved on 2007-08-30.

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