FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project 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:

- 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
- experimental sharpening filter
- noising (of course if you want it)
- presets
- completely free software: ffdshow is distributed under GPL
- support for various subtitle formats

Changes from FFDSHOW 2004-04-05 to FFDSHOW 2004-04-18

- icl+gcc libavcodec build
- fixed crash in encoders combo box
- updated vs.net and mingw builds
- built-in png writing
- TffPict can carry aspect ratio information
- fixed distored image when using some combinations of filters
- icl 8.0 compilation in Visual Studio 6 (except for TomsMoComp)
- fixed makeAVIS release build
- fixed mingw build
- VSSH FOURCC support - plays realtime and normal quality VSofts H.264 encoded files
- show encoding library when selecting encoder
- "process right half only" feature (may be buggy)
- russian translation by Eugene
- support for ogg demux source filter (http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/), support for font size change in MicroDVD subtitles
- getCur, getNext, getCurNext cleanup
- fixed crash in Temporal smooth
- more parameters cleanup
- parameters cleanup, language settings are common for all ffdshow filters
- updated some hints
- changed multiple instances default for audio decoder


Download: FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 18-04-2004 [1.43 MB]