Reliable Codec Packages...

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

Also, ffdshow is also installed with CCCP (but then again, what codec pack doesn't install ffdshow.)

FFDshow (and in a bigger sense, ffmpeg) is sort of the Gold Standard Of All-Purpose Decoders™. Hell, encoders even (though mencoder's right up there too). VLC uses it, most of the Windows codec packs use it... If I ever run into the guys who coded ffmpeg, I'm buying 'em all a round of frosty cold ones. Or, you know, their beverage of choice. It's the thought that counts.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

Yep, though I wish VLC and MPlayer would finally catch up at more advanced subtitle formats.

The reason they don't is that the "more advance subtitle formats" use vobsub for rendering, which isn't available on platforms other than Windows. Since both VLC and mplayer are open-source, cross-platform projects, they are committed to maintaining feature parity amongst all their binary distributions for different OSes. Until vobsub goes open-source/cross-platform, you won't see it in either player.

Besides, I like plain subs.

There's nowhere I can't reach.