As part of the joke, the project's logo features the hammer and sickle and star from the Flag of the Soviet Union.

CCCP was created to fulfill the following: The pack is small and compact, containing only what is needed for most videos; it intentionally disables support for many codecs it considers unnecessary.

It thus can potentially avoid problems caused by inappropriate combinations of filters by providing an all-inclusive playback solution.

In 2006, On2 began recommending the CCCP as a simple decoding solution to feed video and audio to their Flix encoding application.

[citation needed] In 2009, the German C't magazine recommended CCCP as the only trustworthy codec pack available today.