FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20080320 rev1909  beta

Publisher's Description:

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.

Latest Changes:

• Updated libavcodec, x264, xvidcore
• Updated custom matrices
• Add ASS to subtitle extensions
• Fix karaoke with automatic word wrapping
• The PNG encoder (from the grab filter) uses lossless compression. So the previous behavior of using the "quality" slider for the compression level made no sense. Now a fixed compression level (3) is used
• Media Center fix: graph not unloading when using Fast forward/rewind with Media Control
• Added remoteAPI values to set the OSD vertical and horizontal position
• Disable multithreading for MBAFF/PAFF
• Fix ffdshow crashing in AviSynth filter due to bogus memory allocation with YV12 data with a negative pitch
• Fix fast SPP deblocking crashed if height of input image was not a multiple of 4
• Remove excessive check of thread locking
• Added two compiler flags. Should improve performance of floating point arithmetic
• Fixed libmplayer compilation

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	M^3	Mar 24, 2008
Version:	20080320 rev1909
If all you need is a media player, this probably isn't for you. If you need decoders and encoders for various codecs to by usable in several different playback and editing packages, you may find this quite a useful tool.
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Reviewer:	Banquo	Mar 21, 2008
Version:	20080320 rev1909
echohead, this isn't a media player! What a stupid review.
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Reviewer:	grimpr	Mar 11, 2008
Version:	20080222 rev1868
Some people just dont get it, they spit out mindless zealotry instead of objective critisicm...so lets get some things straight...1st... FFDShow is NOT a media player application, its a Directshow filter designed for the techsavy and for people who want to tweak and filter video and get the best subjective quality for their eyes and equipment. 2nd...FFDShow is not a dead or abandoned project,its an opensource project currently residing at http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ with active maintenance and bugfixes, the current build is stable and extremely fast. 3rd...FFDShow's premier usage is decoding, upscaling and filtering video from all possible sources, and it excels at it with plenty of filters and accompanied options which NOT any other media player has for the time being, its the only DirectShow app that transforms a HTPC/MediaCenter to a full blown video processor with features that only very expensive television sets and upscaling dvds have. 4rth...If you dont need FFDShow's video processing features, then simply don't use it, there are plenty of free/opensource players that do their job magnificently. Use the best tools for the job and need at hand, FFDshow fills a needed niche and does a great job at it.
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Reviewer:	echohead	Feb 27, 2008
Version:	20080222 rev1868
books could be written, filled with reasons for why ffdshow should not exist. ffdshow does everything that so many other full-blown media players do...except actually play audio/video by itself. the first guy who successfully argued that having 2 media players open at once, deserves a medal...because i honestly cant figure out why ffdshow is still being used. there are other players that use internal codecs and equal or better upscaling filters. why hasnt ffdshow died yet? oh wait thats right, the original developers DID abandon it. and the weekly bugfixes/releases can only mean one of two things: ffdshow is either extremely unstable, or the developers only fix a couple of bugs before calling it a week. next time you download ffdshow, ask yourself why its updated so much more frequently than the codecs that comprise it. if a media player cant do natively what ffdshow does in a separate process, shouldnt that mean its time to get a new player? two instances of bad software dont make for a good solution...dump ffdshow and get a decent player.
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Reviewer:	grimpr	Feb 10, 2008
Version:	20080127 rev1821
The King of video upscaling and filtering. the best app to install in your media center pc,this program will take any source (file,tv,dvd) and output high quality video upscaled to every size for your monitor or HDTV set. its complex and comes with myriads of options for filters,experimentation is your best way to get the best settings for your hardware, there are also plenty of tweaking guides on the internet. I use FFDShow Tryout (Best version with speed and stability fixes) along with GOM Player and upscale/resize/filter my dvd and video files to my monitors native res at 1680x1050 with amazing results. One of the most absolute essential video apps and FREE! Remember to grab the FFDShow Tryout version.
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