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 2004-04-18 to FFDSHOW 2004-04-24

- updated libavcodec
- output colorspace selection cleanup
- fix in x264 encoder
- function to returs FOURCCs for given codecId
- fixed simple/warped resize crash
- updated ffdshow encoding icon
- updated motion vectors display to recent libavcodec changes
- H.264 encoding using x264 library - constant quantizer only
- updated libavcodec


Download: FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 24-04-2004 [1.67 MB]