Regular Rep: 3 Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1,239 | There’s tons of codecs for which I haven’t found decoders. Some are hardware-only, some are really old, and some are just plain unfindable.
There’s quite a few rarely-used codecs that are freely available, but many are incorporated in codec packs, especially if they’re stable (HFYU (Huffyuv), TSCC (TechSmith Screen Capture)).
CSCD (CamStudio), ZDSV (ZDSoft), VMnc (VMWare), and MWSC (MatchWare) are four others I’m not very aware how widely they’re used in codec packs. Same with MSUC (Moscow State University) and Alparisysoft (can’t remember fourcc).
I don’t know if the DOSBox codec (ZMBV) is bundled in codec packs.
There’s also some fancy ones by big codec makers. L263 (Lead H.263), MCMP (Lead MCMP), LJ2K (Lead JPEG 2000), TJPG (Verint/Loronix Temporal JPG), WVT2 (Verint/Loronix Wavelet), DAVC (Dicas AVC), and maybe some by MainConcept, Pegasus Imaging, or Morgan Multimedia, and many many more.
ES07 is EyeStream 7 available only with EyeBall Chat (it produces videos with your webcam).
There’s also the TrueMotion2 family of codecs; TM20 seems to be used in final fantasy 7, but TM2A and TM2X I’ve never seen samples of.
I don’t know how widely used the NetShow codecs (TR20 (Duck TrueMotion RealTime), UCOD (ClearVideo), VIVO (Vivo H.263), VDOM (VDOWave)) are in codec packs.
The On2 family of codecs (VP3, VP4, VP6, VP7) is fairly rare, but may be in codec packs.
The NUB1 codec was for some movies made with software in certain Nokia cell phones. It’s bundled in the .eye and .ear file decoders, which also contain an encoder. I don’t think it’s very often used.
There’s some I haven’t researched at all (GEOX, CDVC, ACDV, SRVC/3RVC, and too many others to mention) - I don’t even know if they have software encoders.
You have to watch out for some fourcc’s which are almost never used, but bundled in popular filters like ffdshow-tryouts (or anything that’s libavcodec-based like VideoLan). I’m thinking SNOW and FMP4 (FFMPEG MPEG-4).
For a more complete list of codecs look at fourcc.org. Many of these are very obscure. multimedia.cx also has a nice list.
I don’t know which codec packs contain which codecs. They’re so messy, and many are poorly documented. We have a fairly large list of codec packs (actually links to them) in our download section, so you’re free to check out which ones contains which codecs.
P.S: If you have sensitive video footage to hide, may I suggest encryption? Usually passworded rar files with long passphrases (with good mix of upper/lowercase, numbers, and special characters (& % $ ! ~ # etc.)) offer solid protection against most snooping eyes.
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