Download Combined Community Codec Pack 20.04.2014

A new stable release of the Combined Community Codec Pack has been released. Although the name suggests otherwise, the Combined Community Codec Pack is actually a filter pack. Where previously the ffdshow filter package was used, nowadays the LAV filters are preferred. 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. This release, codenamed Absurdum Ipsum, is most likely the last release with support for Windows XP. This time there is no detailed changelog available, but the following components have been updated:

Updated components:

• LAV Filters 0.61.2.0-b02e0c4
• MPC-HC 1.7.4.2 (master@f2fa14b)
• xy-VSFilter 3.0.0.”288″ (git 974aff3)

Installer and settings applications

• The uninstaller should now no longer leave an empty root directory in case of a full uninstall under specific circuimstances.

MPC-HC

• MPC-HC no longer moves a couple of frames forward when paused for the first time.
• XySubFilter’s auto-loading has now been fixed in certain cases on Windows 7.

LAV

• The defaults are now much less restrictive format-wise for both the splitter and the video decoder. This should not bring up issues, but we welcome any reports in case of failure.
  • In LAV Video, VC1, MPEG-1, WMV3, WMV12 and MS Video 1 are disabled in addition to LAV Video’s own defaults of disabling RV12, Cinepak, QPEG and MSRLE. The ones we disable are handled so as they are handled generally better by the official MS decoders.
  • In LAV Splitter, asf (WMV), avi, mp3, mpeg (MPEG-PS), wav and wtv are disabled, as these are known to be either handled well by the MS filters, or known to be problematic with some applications if replaced by non-MS filters.
• LAV Filters’ support for loading Avisynth scripts with itself being called within them has been improved. This fixes the last remaining problem left with using LAV for Avisynth scripts.
• LAV Splitter is now more resilient to unexpected things in embedded cue sheets (in MP3 files, for example).
• MP4/MKV files with H.264 and no parameter sets off-band (avcC) are now supported in LAV Filters.
• Conversion of odd-height 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 YCbCr to RGB now works correctly in LAV Video. Fixes the bottom line in certain mirkosp’s encodes, for example.
• Crashes on SSE-only systems with DTS audio have been fixed.
• DXVA2 decoder implementation has been improved in LAV Video.

xy-VSFilter

• VirtualDub library has been updated.
• Auto-loading of external subtitle files should now work with uppercase extensions.
• A bug fix to allow larger borders in ASS rendering has been merged.