Software Update: Combined Community Codec Pack 17.10.2013

A 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 preference is given to the LAV filters. 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:

• Haali Splitter 1.13.322.9 (CCCP Build)
• LAV Filters 0.58.2.0-42306ee
• MPC-HC 1.7.0.7859 (shows up as 7877)
• xy VSFilter 3.0.0.”236″
  • 211 with various backports and fixes.

General changelog:

• Installer and settings applications
  • Added a Samsung H.264 decoder with an irrationally high merit that seems to come with a piece of software called Intelli-studio to the black list.
• MPC-HC
  • The transition from the Navigate menu to the Play menu regarding audio/video/subtitle track selection is now more or less complete. The bug with MPC-HC overriding the splitter’s choice with audio tracks is now also fixed.
  • MPC-HC now defaults to “fast seek” that only seeks to random access points if those are available to the player. You may disable it in the Tweaks tab in the options.
  • Fixed alpha channel parsing with vobsub subpictures. Certain previously unshown subpictures should now be visible.
  • Subtitle renderer sanity checks removed as they ended up being too strict in some cases. The crashing sample reported will still work as there is some additional memory allocation checking included now.
  • Enabled the CCCP LAV Filters as “internal” for MPC-HC, and enabled certain formats within it for better playback of certain formats:
    • DTS/AC3, HTTP, RTSP, UDP, RTP, MMS, MPEG Audio (yes, this includes raw MP3) and RFS
  • Various miscellaneous fixes resulting from the update of MPC-HC to the 1.7 stable release, with some fixes cherry-picked after that.
• LAV
  • Enabled colorimetry information (color matrix, range) output in LAV Video via dwControlFlags with a white list. Mainline LAV only enables this if MadVR is somewhere in the chain, while this will enable it as long as the next filter in chain is one of the following:
    • VSFilter (auto-loading or the non-autoloading one)
    • VMR7/9
    • EVR (includes everything that uses the same CLSID, including all of the MPC-HC custom EVR-based renderers)
    • madVR
  • Various miscellaneous fixes resulting from the update of LAV Filters to the current git HEAD (42306ee).
• xy-VSFilter
  • xy-VSFilter is now generally colorimetry-enabled as well. It will use the colorimetry information, such as the color matrix or range, that it gets from an upstream filter (say, LAV Video) and pass it forward if the next filter in chain is one of the following:
    • VMR7/9
    • EVR (includes everything that uses the same CLSID, including all of the MPC-HC custom EVR-based renderers)
    • madVR
  • Fixed alpha channel parsing with vobsub subpictures. Certain previously unshown subpictures should now be visible.
  • Re-introduced a patch for the Kasumi I420/YUY2 to RGB colorspace conversion routines as Lord was somehow able to reproduce the problem it fixes. Shouldn’t happen in general usage.
  • Subtitle renderer sanity checks removed as they ended up being too strict in some cases. Instead tried to make xy-VSFilter handle failed memory allocations in a more correct manner. The VSFilter subtitle rendering engine is old and rather memory-inefficient, so the only real fix for this would be to either rewrite it completely, or create a proper Windows port of libass (primarily without fontconfig).
• Haali Package
  • Now built with the same toolchain as the rest of the CCCP package, namely VS2010 SP1.
  • Debug symbols are now available! Yes, this means we can now debug Haali’s things.
  • Haali’s renderer should now try and enforce upside down RGB. This should fix some slowness problems when feeding RGB to the renderer.