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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20081219 rev2527 Beta 6

4.6 (576 votes)

BETA (December 22, 2008)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Open Source / 275,304 downloads

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies, picture postprocessing, and show subtitles. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project or for video decompression (it can use xvid.dll installed with xvid codec too), postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder
Latest Changes
- Important security fix: Buffer overflow vulnerability was fixed

- Fixes to ffdshow's remote API

- GDI resource leak fix

- Subtitle fixes

- Fixed missing character at the end of line with non-UTF8 encoding in embedded subtitles

- When activating SSA tags within SRT subs, default placement (with no tag) was not correct

- Subtitle stability fix for random crashes

- Workaround for crashes in applications that use the Windows Media Player SDK

- Wrong color fix for Fraps v5

- The Grab filter was producing a black right border when saving PNG images having a width which was not a multiple of 16

- OSD / Info & CPU: Show correct value in "Movie FPS"

- Crash due to a language file size limit was fixed

- Added support for E-AC3 decoding (Dolby Digital Plus)

- Added support for DTS-HD decoding (core DTS only)

- Added support for Dolby TrueHD and MLP decoding (full TrueHD decoding or AC3 can pass-through depending on config)

- New deinterlacer: yadif (Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter)

- Updated libavcodec with the latest code from the FFmpeg project

- Volume normalization

- One-pass normalization added. This mode is used to reach the highest possible loudness with minimum of possible artifacts

- Improved normalization, the probability of clipping has been decreased

- Added support for S/PDIF sample rates other than 48kHz: Pass-through of 44.1kHz AC3/DTS streams plays back correctly now

- Dynamic range compression level for AC3 and E-AC3 sources can now be set between 0 and 100%

- AC3/DTS pass-through settings are now based on presets

- DVD playback support by libavcodec

- Tweaked compatibility list reporting: Executable names that are not yet in the default whitelist/blacklist are now reported only

- Unicode support for FFDShowRemoteAPI

- Language file size limit was increased, all language files are now encoded as UTF-16LE+BOM

- Various OSD updates

- Buffer limit increased from 256 to 2048 characters

- HTML encoding support similar to SRT files

- Added SSA support for OSD and combobox to select the format (HTML/SSA)

- SRT files with tags support: SSA tags support in SRT files and HTML tags support in SSA files

- Improved compatibility with certain MPEG2 Transport / Program Stream demultiplexers (e.g. DVBSource, Elecard) for files that contain H.264 video

- Support H.264 digital television playback in DVBViewer

- Improved H.264 seeking

- Added an option to deinterlace only frames flagged as "interlaced"

- Enhanced interlacing options allow to choose the method (auto, weave, bob) as well as the field order (auto, top field, bottom field)

- Color space conversion: Added option "Force progressive" and "Force interlace"

- Flag telecined frames as progressive (libmpeg2)

- H.264: Correct field order, interlace/progressive flags are decoded

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Artem Tashkinov
Reviewing 20081219 rev2527 Beta 6 (Dec 23, 2008)

Official download link: http://downloads.sourcef...a6_rev2527_20081219.exe

Official announcement:
Beta 6 adds support for E-AC3, DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD and MLP decoding. This release also features a new deinterlacer called Yadif as well as various improvements to volume normalization and H.264 playback.
Among the usual slew of bugfixes stands out one important security fix: Updating is strongly recommended!

Changelog:
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/changelog.php
aking80
Reviewing 20081114 rev2322 (Nov 15, 2008)

@dink: Because most the stuff codec packs use are unnecessary and installs a bunch of crap.

Anyways, ffdshow, CoreAVC, and directvobsub is all I need. Can play anything I throw at it.
dink
Reviewing 20081114 rev2322 (Nov 15, 2008)

Why wouldn't one just use K-Lite Mega Codec Pack??
It has ffdshow built-in.
khagaroth
Reviewing 20081114 rev2322 (Nov 15, 2008)

Unless you use some of the more demanding postprocessing filters, there is no need for you to use the SSE version. The decoding part is already manually optimized and does not get any speed improvements with SSE compile.

Just a note for BetaNews, this is not the original ffdshow, this is a separate fork of the original (its name is ffdshow tryouts), started by some developers on the doom9 forums, anyway, I'm glad someone took over the development after Milan (the original author) disappeared.
us3r
Reviewing 20081114 rev2322 (Nov 15, 2008)

Meh... I will wait for the SSE build.

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Mar 20, 2009 - 2:21 PM
dapxin
Is there any huge performance difference wrt SSE/MMX builds ?

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