Combined Community Codec Pack

Decided to take a break from all the reviews and intro this software instead. Different people have their own ways of settling codec issues for whatever videos they are watching. From what I know, the more common practices are 1) to download individual necessary codecs, 2) K lite codec pack, 3) VLC player and 4) Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP).

For those in group 1, they are usually those can really be bothered to hunt for each codec. Of course they need to know their stuff to download only the necessary stuff and they are usually the kind that cant even tolerate an extra codec lying around in their hard disk and not being used. I guess not many of us would fall under this category.

Let me skip group 2 and talk about VLC player users. Certainly it does seem that VLC itself can play quite a wide range of .avi files and other stuff, but I’ve heard that (never bothered to confirm) VLC can’t play certain things too (dont ask me what). For me, however, I would certainly prefer Media Player Classic over VLC player cos i find the former nicer to use. (what a lame reason…)

Now then, it’s the 2 of the most common codec packs that many people use nowadays. Before CCCP came into the picture, K lite was the most widely used codec pack if i aint mistaken. Some still stick to it, while others (myself included) have switched to CCCP. Why the switch? If u ask me, i certainly wouldn’t justify from the really technical point of view due to my serious lack of knowledge in codec/playback stuff. However, seeing more and more major fansub groups (check their faq section under their official wiki) and other big sites dealing with media recommending CCCP. Perhaps 1 reason is due to the fact that CCCP is much smaller so i suppose it really gives u all the common stuff that you would expect an average person to require, without having multiple stuff that might overlap in terms of their functionality. Hence, less “junk” (like god knows how many players and “useless” codecs) on your hdd, which should be good :)

Well of course u can read for yourself all the supported formats CCCP can offer. If you dont really understand what all those mean (i dont understand fully either), just know that it works which is what’s most important and everyone cares about. Of course if you are into Real Media or Quicktime video formats, you will unfortunately have to go grab Real Alternative & Quicktime Alternative respectively if you dont want more media players lying around. I’ve already mentioned those in my first entry of this category. With that, I should think playing videos shouldn’t be of any problem.

Hmm, I would recommend this to all who tends to watch a considerable amount of videos. All right, that sums up my 3rd entry of this category. I guess I dont really have that much to share in this aspect. Until next time~~

p.s. sorry for all the unrelated non-CCCP stuff. Haha.