Download Combined Community Codec Pack 02.03.2013

A stable release of the Combined Community Codec Pack has appeared, more than a year after the last release. Although the name suggests otherwise, the Combined Community Codec Pack is actually a directshow filter pack. It originated from the anime community and has since grown into a collection that should be able to play any audio or video format imaginable. In addition to the necessary filters, the media player Media Player Classic Home Cinema is also included and all components can be installed as desired. Below is the changelog of this release.

Updated components:

• LAV Filters 0.55.3.0-1af3d7c
• MPC-HC 1.6.6.6844 (lite, shows up as 6852 in many places because of a design decision by X from the MPC-HC team)
• xy-VSFilter 3.0.0.”213″ (211 with this patch and this patch)

Installer and settings applications

• The installer will now see if you have any Asus Xonar audio devices installed, and if such are found, will check if a feature called “GX mode” is enabled in the drivers. If the feature is found to be enabled, the installer will ask if you would like to disable it. Since this mode is known to affect various things negatively, we at the CCCP project recommend for it to be disabled at all times.
• The settings application no longer should let you do things that need administrative rights if you have no way of elevating (UAC is really, really disabled).
• Added the Moonlight H.264 decoder (”{04B31EE9-EC66-4CED-8FF4-A9E7E22D1D8B}”) as well as the Emuzed H264 Video Decoder (”{B667A41E-E41C-402D-A7B3-C7C1D962D26F}”) to the ‘bad filters’ blacklist in the installer. Both of them are old and completely broken for general DirectShow playback scenarios.

MPC-HC

• The player no longer should have black borders around the rendered video surface as long as the player’s window proportions match the videos.
• There is now an option to set the auto-fit factor for auto-zoom’s auto-fit feature.
• Certain PGS blu-ray subtitles are now rendered correctly thanks to Underground78’s fixes in color palette parsing.
• The VSync functionality in the custom VMR/EVR renderers has been made work better with the DMO WMV decoder that comes with Windows Vista+.

LAV

• Keyframe seeking in MOV/”MP4″-style containers has been added.
• Handling of some aspect ratios in matroska has been made better.
• General improvements in hardware decoding.
• DVD subtitle animation support was improved.
• DTS bit streaming has been updated to fall back from DTS-HD MA to standard DTS in case it is not supported by the receiver.
• The LAV Splitter’s loadup override patch has been updated a bit. Should now work better with blu-ray playlists and folders in case the user happens to have disabled the format in LAV Splitter’s settings while still having the format registered for LAV source filter-wise.

xy-VSFilter

• Patched to auto-load microDVD .sub files again.
• Ported the PGS subtitle rendering fix from MPC-HC to xy-VSFilter as well. Both should now be more correct in rendering them.