CODEC Frustrations .... and some solutions

A good place to find hard to find CODECs... and what they are and who may have them... not all are created equally and there is some distress between where Apple wants to go and Windows Media Player...

Some popular codecs

Below were listed - by name and purpose - some of the most popular audio/speech and video codecs.

AUDIO CODECS

- AAC: music with digital rights (DRM)
- ACELP.live: music (VoiceAge)
- AIFF: music (Macintosh)
- AU: music (Sun)
- MP3: music (Fraunhofer IIS)
- Ogg Vorbis: music (open source standard)
- RA, RAM: music (RealNetworks streaming)
- WMA: music (Microsoft)

SPEECH CODECS

- µ-Law PCM: telephone circuit (U.S.)
- ACELP.net: general speech (VoiceAge)
- ACELP.wide: high quality (VoiceAge)
- A-Law PCM: telephone circuit (Europe)
- AMR-NB: GSM, 3GPP (ETSI narrowband)
- AMR-WB: GSM, 3GPP (ETSI wideband)
- DV Audio: MiniDV, audio
- G.711: audio/videoconferencing (ITU)
- G.722: audio/videoconferencing (ITU)
- G.723.1: VoIP, audio/videoconferencing (ITU)
- G.728: audio/videoconferencing (ITU)
- G.729: audio/videoconferencing (ITU)
- GSM 06.10: GSM, cellphone (unknown)

VIDEO CODECS

- AVI: movies (Microsoft)
- Cinepak: movies (SuperMac Technologies)
- H.261: videoconferencing (ITU)
- H.263: videoconferencing (ITU)
- H.264: videoconferencing (ITU)
- Indeo: movies (Intel)
- MPEG-1: movies (Moving Pictures Experts Group)
- MPEG-2: movies (Moving Pictures Experts Group)
- MPEG-4: movies (Moving Pictures Experts Group)
- RM, RV: movies and streaming (RealNetworks)
- Sorenson: movies (Sorenson Media)
- WMV: movies and streaming (Microsoft)

FFDShow FFDShow is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX movies. It supports all of the following movie file types: XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4.

MediaPlayer CodecPack - MediaPlayer has a good following for harder to find codecs.

Package Components:

● DivX 7.4 Pro Video Codec.
● DivX h.264 Video (Decoder) Codec.
● XviD 1.2.2 Video (Encoder) Codec - Koepi's 07/06/09 Build.
● ffdshow Video Codec 20100524 x86 Revision 3452 by xxl.
● ffdshow Video Codec 20100531 x64 Revision 3466 by clsid.
● Microsoft - Windows Media 9 Video Codec 9.0.1.369.
● On2 Technologies VP7 Video (Decoder) Codec 7.0.8.
● On2 Technologies VP6 Video Codec 6.4.2.
● Flash Video Splitter 1.2.908 x86 & x64.
● Ligos Indeo XP Video Codec 5.2820.15.58.
● Intel Indeo Video Codec 4.51.16.2.
● Intel Indeo Video Codec 3.24.1.2.

● InterVideo Video Filter 7.0.27.191.
● CyberLink DVD Video/SP Filter 6.0.2.2806.
● AC3Filter 1.63b x86 & x64.
● AC3File 0.7b x86 & x64.
● Spdifer 0.3b x86 & x64.

● Core AAC Playback Filter 1.2.0.573 + AAC Parser Filter 1.1.0 By Tom Judd.
● Core Vorbis Playback Filter 1.1.0.79 + OGG Splitter 1.2.908 By Gabest.
● RadLight OFR Playback Filter 1.0.0.1 - for OptimFROG.
● Lame MP3 3.98.2 ACM Codec.
● DSP-worx Bass source filter 1.11.

● Haali Media Splitter 20/05/10 x86 & x64 - For MP4, MKV, OGM and AVI container files.
● Matroska Source Splitter 1.2.908 x86 & x64.
● MP4 Source Splitter 1.2.908 x86 & x64.
● MPEG Source Splitter 1.2.908 x86 & x64.
● RealMedia Source Splitter 1.2.908 x86 & x64.
● AVI - AC3/DTS Converter + DTS/AC3 Source Filter x86 & x64 By Gabest.

● VSFilter 2.39.5 x86 & 2.37 x64 - Subtitle Readers.
● CDXA Reader 1.2.908 - Also known as Form 2 Mode 2 CD or XCD x86 & x64.
● GSpot Codec Information Appliance 2.70a.