Recommended codex and media player

carbonkid

Just got my first Macintosh system. I watch alot of different types of video files like ogms and mkvs. Whats the mac equivalent to the Combined Community Codec Pack?

I also know alot of people are going to recommend vlc player but with some soft subbing on anime shows vlc can cause problems.

Know its a really noob question but really grateful for any help ^_^

Elessar

I've found that Plex can play anything that VLC has a problem with.

cornbb

Perian (perian.org) might do the trick. It's a set of Quicktime extensions (which presumably includes a bunch of codecs).

Perian aims to provide a single package for all your playback needs. It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several libraries:
• libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code from the old FFusion component:
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2
• DivX
• 3ivx
• H.264
• Flash Video
• Flash Screen Video
• VP6
• H263I
• VP3
• HuffYUV and ffvhuff
• Indeo 1 & 2
• MPEG-1 & 2 Video (in supported formats)
• Fraps (up to v4)
• Windows Media Audio v1 & v2
• Flash ADPCM
• Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)
• MPEG Layer I and II audio
• DTS Coherent Acoustics audio
• Snow wavelet video
• DosBox video
• Nellymoser ASAO audio
• libavformat, from the ffmpeg project. along with AVIImporter.component:
• AVI file format
• FLV file format
• NUV file format
• libmatroska, along with matroska-qt.component:
• MKV file format
• Subtitles:
• (Advanced) SubStation Alpha
• SRT
• SAMI
• VobSub
• liba52, via A52Codec:
• AC3 audio

carbonkid

Im not a big fan of quicktime but i might use this perian.org site if i dont find anything better. Not too sure about the Plex site, doesnt mention anything about a codex or what files it will play.

Im surprised there isnt a really popular version of cccp for mac floating around.