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ffdshow is a media decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e.g. encoded with DivX, Xvid, or FFmpeg MPEG-4) and AVC (H.264) formats, but it supports numerous other video and audio formats as well.

ffdshow uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project or for video decompression, 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.

Features of ffdshow:

- Fast video decompression using optimized MMX, SSE and 3DNow! code.
- Support for different codecs: XviD, all DivX versions, MS WMV, MPEG-1 and - MPEG-2.
- Image postprocessing for higher playback quality.
- Automatic quality control: automatically reduces postprocessing level when CPU load is high.
- Hue, saturation and luminance correction.
- Support for various subtitle formats.



Changes in latest version (read full changelog):

- Support for H.264 10-bit 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4/RGB.
- Support for H.264 8-bit 4:2:2/4:4:4/RGB, 4:2:0 was already supported.
- Support for various 10-bit and 16-bit colorspaces.
- Optimized YV12 to NV12 conversion.
- Enabled high quality RGB32 conversion by default.
- Added option to select a preferred output colorspace.
- Added Intel QuickSync decoder. This provides hardware acceleration decoding of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2.
- Added DXVA video filter for hardware accelerated decoding. Supports H.264 and VC-1 video. Also includes subtitle support.
- Various additions to the application blacklist and whitelist.
- Added support for Blu-ray PGS subtitles.
- Removed support for USF subtitles.
- Updated Boost library to v1.49.
- Updated zlib library to v1.2.6.
- Updated minilzo library to v2.06.
- Updated unrar library to v4.10.
- Updated libsamplerate to v0.1.8.
- Removed mp3lib.
- Removed xvidcore.
- Many other additions, changes and corrections. 

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Author: milan_cutka
Updated: 2012-04-12
Version of Windows: XP, Vista, 7

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