Links

Codecs & DirectShow Filters

Official DivX website

Official XviD website
Xvid binaries by Jawor
Xvid binaries by Koepi

AC3Filter & AC3File

Project Guliverkli (old)
Project Guliverkli2 (patched)
Project MPC-HC (new)
Media Player Classic, VSFilter, RealMedia splitter, FLV splitter, etc.

ffdshow
A DirectShow filter that can decode many audio and video formats.

Haali Media Splitter
Source filter for the Matroska, MP4, Ogg, MPEG and AVI containers.

LAV Filters
Source filter, audio decoder, and video decoder for many formats.

madFLAC
Source and decoding filter for FLAC audio.

MONGRAM Musepack Filter
Source and decoding filter for Musepack audio.

MONOGRAM AMR Filter
Source, decoding, encoding and muxer for AMR audio.

Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder
Decoder for .ape files.

DC-Bass Source
Source and decoding filter for several audio formats. For example ALAC, AAC, Tracker and TrueAudio.

AC-3 ACM Codec
Decoder for AC3 audio in programs like VirtualDub.

x264 CLI
x264 VFW

DScaler5
MPEG-2/DVD decoder.

ReClock
Audio renderer with many options. WASAPI output. Audio time stretching (for PAL speedup compensation). Video frame rate correction.

MediaLooks QuickTime DirectShow filter
A DirectShow filter that works as a wrapper for the QuickTime components. Can be used to play QuickTime files with Windows Media Player.

Tutorials

Doom9
Lots of encoding tutorials and a forum with multimedia experts.

VideoHelp

Ripping Tools

DVDFab Decrypter
DVD Decrypter

Exact Audio Copy

Encoding Tools

Avidemux
Excellent video conversion tool.

MeGUI

VirtualDub
Basic video editing and encoding tool.

Auto Gordian Knot

MediaCoder

Video Tools

AviSynth

Audio Tools

BeSweet
Audio transcoding tool

mpTrim

Muxing Tools

MKVToolnix
A powerful set of tools for (re-)muxing Matroska files.

Miscellaneous Tools

ProgDVB

DVD tools

FixVTS

DVD Rebuilder

DVDSubEdit

IfoEdit

VobBlanker

MenuEdit

Subtitle Tools

SubRip / VobSubStrip

Players

Media Player Classic

VideoLAN

BS.Player

ZoomPlayer

MPlayer

Burning Tools

ImgBurn

Miscellaneous

Monkey's Audio
Lossless audio compression format.

RareWares
Information about AAC, Ogg Vorbis and MPEG4.

Hydrogen Audio
Audio experts

MSDN DirectShow

FourCC.org
List of common Four Character Codes that are used by codecs to identify themselves.

AudioTag
List of common audio tags used by audio codecs to identify themselves.

Comparison of container formats