Other codec packs tend to either randomly not work, break the system, or install far too much cruft. Why CCCP? Because it achieves as much as possible with as little as possible. The CCCP attempts to be as unintrusive on your system as possible. The Combined Community Codec Pack is a simple playback pack for Windows with the goal of supporting the majority of video formats in use today.
The full title is the Combined Community Codec Pack.
