miden Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 I agree with and1direct, Codec Packs are great if you know what to install and what not to. i use K-Lite 3.5.3 Codec Pack which works really well for me, i watch anime and drama's with subs and what not. I have had no problems with it what so ever, but watching things with subs for VideoLAN tend to not show unless you have the subtitle file but sometimes it still doesnt work. It works great with other videos though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppy Veteran Posted December 12, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 12, 2007 Uhhh... in reference to the first post: The "How to Install Playback Software" guide SUCKS. I don't why the heck they archived their own old versions of FFDShow, MPC, and etc, but -- wth? DefilerPak is warez (DiVx-wma? come on now) and uses old buggy FFDShow. DivX Total Pack is warez. Old versions of a bunch of codecs, great. Tzim's hasn't been updated in a year. I'd recommend just going with the CCCP suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhav Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I love codec packs (well, a particular one) - hasn't screwed up my system, and it means everything plays. Don't see what the problem is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppy Veteran Posted January 1, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 1, 2008 The problem with "it works for me, your mileage may vary" is that that sucks as advice for a billion people. If you have a failure rate of 1%... that's more people than are in New York City. Near perfection and AppVerifier are your friend, for starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppy Veteran Posted June 4, 2008 Veteran Share Posted June 4, 2008 Would it be possible to get the original post in this thread updated to point to FFDShow TRYOUTS instead of the broken and abandoned in 2002 FFDShow? FFDShow itself is old and broken. FFDShow Tryouts fixes many important bugs and benefits from six years of further development work. *thumbs up* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 i use VLC, very happy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SakuraKira Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I use the CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack). Very convenient, comes with 2 players (MPC and Zoom Player), there is a forum full of knowledgeable people willing to help with any problems, and it just works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous_user Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I disagree with this thread entirely. Same here. I think the bad reputation of early codec packs was unfairly passed on to newer ones. CCCP and VCP for example, are excellent codec packs and they do not destroy your system or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PermaSt0ne Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 +1 CCCP or just ffdshow (the new tryouts version, not old broken one!!!!) hell even MPC gets most jobs done by itself without installing any codecs no need to install k-lite or any huge codec pack at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebdomine Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I use K-Lite :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julius Caro Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Amen. Codec packs must cease to exist! And Nero should stop making their codecs the defaults. It's bad that a "good" thing like directshow filters end up being a mess because vendors can't keep their **** together. Codec packs only make it more messy. VLC could be a lot better though. The thing can play the most non-standard stuff (and by non standard I mean a file in a container that doesn't comply with standards), and that's as good as IE's rendering engine, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 i use KMPlayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown_97784568745 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I use CCCP/SMplayer on windows. SMplayer is a good Front-end for Mplayer, you could add that on the first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCrap Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 SMPlayer is what i use personally..highly recommended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentSmith15 Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 I would say CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a great codec pack. Why should I use the CCCP? Exactly what does CCCP install and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted June 28, 2008 Global Moderator Share Posted June 28, 2008 I use another codec pack of an un-named source, since I am unsure of its legal status... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueFox Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 +1 for CCCP. Works great and has everything you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreqFace Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Codec packs are bad? Since when? I've always used them and had 0 (zero) problems. And it's played every file I've thrown at it, in any media player I want, so I can't complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 There used to be a lot of dodgy ones that were full of spyware and warez. Seems like these days people just take ffdshow + one or two other things and call it a codec pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreqFace Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Well I've used the infamous one (won't mention the name) for years and it's worked beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppy Veteran Posted August 13, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 13, 2008 Right, I realize that people get confused because it works (or they think it works) for them and that it's all OK. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. For example, ask the makers of "infamous one" about why they removed IAC from their package in December and whether or not that had anything to do with the fact that that led to a crash in most MPEG2 aware DShow based in-box components on Windows Vista (since IAC crashes on a standard filter query) which blossomed because of their abject incompetence into the single most frequent crash in those applications. Bravo sirs. I agree that you as an average user might not notice bugs that will corrupt the systems of millions of users. On the plus side, people like me and many others are here to look out for you and try to get these pieces of junk fixed up so that you can happily and cheerily say "Well It Worked For Me!" and have that be a meaningful statement. If you have questions about the stability/instability of codec packs, you're welcome to PM me. The most you can say is that "recent" versions of *certain* packs seem to work for now. I monitor multimedia problems / crashes, so it's quite possible that I'll accidentally find more bugs in those packs going forward. It would be irresponsible of you or anyone to claim that these random collections are bug-free or non-problematic, sorry. It's just not the case. For more indepth discussions head to doom9 or other multimedia-focused site. <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 K-Lite codec pack here.. I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la3r Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I use no codec packs, not even ffdshow. I use MPC-HC to play basicly everything and as a backup I have VLC. and to music it's foobar2000 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixrousis Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I use the K-lite Mega Codec Pack for a very long time in various PCs. I never experienced any problems. I will keep using Codec Packs because i want to be sure that my system will play every file/audio in the best possible and easy way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PermaSt0ne Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 CCCP is the best codec pack out right now; as it has been for a while uses the minimum required to play every format of every kind, is pre-configured to guarantee no conflicts of any kind, AND has a small footprint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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