Common codecs/formats that should be in a codec pack?

[earthdark]

I know there's a Nimo pack with every codec out know to man but uhh it's a bit on the overkill side so I've made a codecpack for myself + friends that contains just the neccesities. I have the folllowing so far:

mpg4c32.dll - "old school mpeg4" support from the SmR patch days
divxc32.dll and divxc32f.dll - the original DivX 3.11 files (lm and fm)
divx.dll - current DivX 4.12 release
huffyuv.dll - Huffyuv loseless codec for encoders
vfcodec.dll - VFAPI reader codec, also for encoders
divxa32.acm - DivX audio from 3.11 days
l3codeca.acm - mp3 decoding/encoding
and few files ripped from WinDVD for mpeg2 viewing in WMP, and some directshow filters for the above files.

Is there any other must have codec/file that I should include?

[Keikai]

Actually I did something similar for my friends a few weeks ago. Mine was similar although I left out one or two of those codecs and included the following non-video codecs:

dvobsub
mmswitch
ac-3 audio pack

Since you seem to be concentrating on video codecs you might not be interested in those, but I thought I'd mention them.

I also included Sasami2k and BSPlayer because each had some capabilities people might need from time to time. I find between those two and WMP most bases are covered.

[earthdark]

mmm, I grabbed an ac3 audio filter but I haven' an idea what mmswitch is and I'm not really a fan of softsubs. :P

Eventually, I'm just gonna upload the install pack (a bit over 2 megs right now) to a server and just link it on the ampeg homepage. (shamless plug)

[Keikai]

Info on mmswitch is here: http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/mmswitch/
It's a handy DShow filter that allows people to encode a single AVI with multiple audio tracks and then choose which one to play from the player. It's a good choice now that DX8.1 breaks the "Graphedit Method" of multiple audio tracks. From an encoding standpoint it doesn't particularly interest me since I don't bother encoding anything except japanese w/ subs but its necessary to play the tracks on some releases.

As for vobsub (and mmswitch for that matter), it really depends on your goal. If the pack is for other people (your friends) then you might want to include everything that they might run into.

Just thought I'd mention it.

[earthdark]

Ah thanks. mmswitch looks good, I'll probably include it once I get around to locating it's dll/ax file. The purpose of the codec pack is to provide something more along the lines of a bare essentials codec pack as opposed to everything and the kitchen sink codec pack (a la Nimo).

[Zenofobe]

Are there still enough flaky videos out there to warrent having DiVX Antifreeze installed?

[Zenofobe]

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Are there still enough flaky videos out there to warrent having DiVX Antifreeze installed? If so, then it might be worth adding to the now-becoming-generic video pack.

[earthdark]

Hmm, I think most encoders are smart enough to either use the anti-freeze settings in Nandub or to have people QA the encode before release so I'm not going to include an anti-freeze one.

[Gorunova]

[zanson]

[Gorunova]

[xo]

I never tried the Windows version, but the Videolan client was a cool solution for MPEG2 playback on the Mac.

http://videolan.org/vlc/

-xo

[zanson]

[off topic]

[xo]

[superjaded]

FWIW, ffdshow-alpha can play pretty much anything you can throw at it. This includes anything MPEG4 (divx3+, xvid, ms mpeg4* etc), HuffyYUV(and Huffy in YV12 too, IIRC), MPEG1.. there's really not much it can't play.

You may also have to include "DivX audio" crap for the old encodes as well..

Also, I would hope that encoders know enough about encoding/decoding that they could install HuffyYUV/VFAPI themselves (it's cleaner to use avisynth+mpeg2dec anyway, IMO) rather than install useless things for people who just want to watch stuff.. so you might want to hold off on those.

EDIT: No Ogg Filters?