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ffdshow


ffdshow is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV, MP4, WMV, MPG, MPEG2(SVCD, DVD), AVC/H264, AC3, DTS, AAC with image postprocessing like video noise removing filters and audio postprocessing. Over 70 bugs have been fixed, codecs have been updated, and support for a few new formats has been added in the tryouts. Vista is now supported.

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vr3124 2009-11-03

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r3124 2009-11-03 (November 03, 2009)


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Supported operating systems: Windows

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Version history:
Revision 3124 - Directory Listing
Modified Tue Nov 3 15:29:08 2009 UTC (7 hours, 6 minutes ago) by clsid2

Updated FFmpeg

Revision 3123 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Nov 1 07:00:59 2009 UTC (2 days, 15 hours ago) by drevil_xxl

updated project files.

Revision 3122 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Oct 31 21:36:43 2009 UTC (3 days ago) by drevil_xxl

updated xvidcore

Revision 3121 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Oct 30 18:19:52 2009 UTC (4 days, 4 hours ago) by drevil_xxl

removed unused code.

Revision 3120 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Oct 30 16:36:13 2009 UTC (4 days, 5 hours ago) by drevil_xxl

updated project files.

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Guides and How to's:
Add permanent subtitles to VCD,SVCD,DVD,AVI with ffdshow or vobsub and convert with Tmpgenc - Read
Converting M4S2 Video file using VirtualDub - Read
FLV to AVI Conversion Guide using VirtualDub - Read
MP4 Usage Guide, Play, Convert, Edit - Read
YouTube, Google Video Download and DivX Conversion Guide - Read
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Acronyms / Also Known As:
ffdshowmt, ffdshow-mt, fdshow tryout, ffdshowtryout, ffdshow tryouts

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This tool is awesome, I always update to the latest version as soon as I know it's out :).

Posted October 08, 2009 by Baby Naruto. Tool version 20091006 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10






When encoding xvid to mkv(x264)using ffdshow as the xvid codecs in vista 64 causes the audio to gradually go out of sync,using the Xvid-1.2.2 keeps the audio in sync but it a bit of a pain to install on vista 64.

Posted June 18, 2009 by johns0. Tool version 3008 using OS Vista 64-bit
Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 1 of 10 Value for money 1 of 10 Overall score 1 of 10






Xvid inside AVI's can have issues with VFW based programs such as Virtualdub and AVISynth, eg frames being returned out of order.

As at Feb 2009, the Packed Bitstream AVI "fix" for xvid-in-AVI problems ONLY works if you use the latest XVID codec and not ffdshow's xvid decoder.
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic363395-30.html#1942550
So, to use the "fix", always create/convert AVI with xvid content to "packed bitstream" and use the "real" xvid to decode instead of ffdshow. Unticking decoding xvid in ffdshow (both vfw and non-vfw) and installing the latest xvid makes the problem go away.

Posted February 26, 2009 by halsboss. Tool version 2719 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






I went round and round before I found out that certain H.264 files require Haali Media Splitter installed in conjunction with ffdshow. Once that was done all worked great.

Posted February 26, 2009 by Dan.. Tool version rev2639_2009012 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 6 of 10 Functionality 6 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 8 of 10






My Anti-virus software also picked up on a virus with version 2008-04-05. I think AVG Anti-virus (Registered Version) is pretty good with low false positives so I moved the .exe file to the Virus Vault and wiped it.

Apart from that this tool is very good when used with Media Player Classic. You can play near enough any media file type!

Thanks to the developers.

Posted April 12, 2008 by laspis59. Tool version 2008-04-05 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 9 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10






Be careful with the latest release, my antivirus software got quite 'mad' with it and i had to go through a full scan for an hour and a half or so. I guess open-source stuff comes with that...

Posted April 12, 2008 by uzi. Tool version Latest using OS WinXP
Ease of use 9 of 10 Functionality 9 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






My only comment on this software is that I have Videohelp.com sende me an email whenver it is updated, and I sometimes get 2 or 3 emails a week. A lot of the changes are fairly trivial.

Posted November 19, 2007 by ebenton. Tool version vr1620 2007-11-18 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 9 of 10 Functionality 9 of 10 Value for money 9 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






Gives me the best quality for the least CPU utilization when used for mpeg2. Highly recommended.

Posted November 01, 2007 by striker9. Tool version 1548 using OS Win2K
Ease of use 6 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






Wish there was support for Interlaced H.264 found on the MTS files from AVCHD camcorders from Sony and Pannasonic. That would give this a perfect 10 in my book.

All in all, very good S/W.........

Posted January 10, 2007 by racer-x. Tool version r756 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 9 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941
This is the download link listed on this page. SSE and SSE2 Builds are both available at this link.

Posted November 10, 2006 by Poppa_Meth. Tool version r514 using OS WinXP
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went to www.free-codecs.com - once there used to be an SSE2 version, but now only SSE etc ... not sure what the deal is nowadays.

Posted November 09, 2006 by halsboss. Tool version may8 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 7 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






Versions from 15 Nov 2005 now support video in Tmpgenc again although there are still some issues with audio in Tmpgenc. According to the developer (Milan Cutka) this has now also been fixed but so far there has been no release forthcoming with the audio fix.
Just disable ffdshow for mp3 decoding if you want to use Tmpgenc

Posted April 11, 2006 by farcus. Tool version 20051115 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 8 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






These newer versions of ffdshow don't seem to work very well with tmpgenc.

Posted November 06, 2005 by farcus. Tool version 20051103 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 8 of 10 Functionality 3 of 10 Value for money 3 of 10 Overall score 3 of 10






I have been ffdshow for about 3 years or more now. I use simply to convert DivX/XviD avi's to VCD/SVCD and DVD. Never had a problem with freezing or anything that others have commented on. Also there is a nice configuration tool to control the software, i dont mess with it too much, but its there if you need to. I like this much better than having to install seperately DivX 3 / 5 and XviD codecs.

Posted February 08, 2005 by cetae. Tool version 20041012 using OS WinXP
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Excelent program, can do a lot. Was the only decoder in use, until discovered that the last version (20041012 or the version before, I'm not sure which was installed) have problem with some type of .avi (XviD made from camera shot). My computer simply restart or became instable. Checked with 3 movies of the same type and the result was the same. Uninstalled ffdshow and installed XviD codec (XviD 1.0.1 (05062004) version) and the movie was OK.
Anyway, the best decoding software I used ever and make a good team with VobSub (not sure if is really necessary VobSub, to lazzy to check).

Posted November 14, 2004 by kameleonoff. Tool version 20041012 using OS Win2K
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I use it for 2 years on my 2 machines (XP Sp1 and 98SE). Extremely usefull to add permanent subtitles to AVI and VCD's.

Posted November 03, 2004 by Jeremiah58. Tool version 10122004 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 9 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10






Maybe they read my comments and fixed the bugs. If they have then I take back what I said before.

Posted November 03, 2004 by deckard8. Tool version 20041012 Alpha using OS WinXP
Ease of use 7 of 10 Functionality 7 of 10 Value for money 7 of 10 Overall score 7 of 10






Contrary to the other comment here, this FIXED all the problems I had with XP and TMPGEnc .."index scan" and various Directshow problems which led TMPGEnc to crash whenever Vobsub tried to load a sub...

Posted November 03, 2004 by G Force. Tool version 20041012 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 9 of 10 Functionality 9 of 10 Value for money 9 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






I have always been a fan of Ffdshow until now. I discovered through chance that all my Tmpgenc Xvid to Mpeg conversion errors e.g freezing, crashing etc while converting where being caused by this evil thing. I uninstalled it and used the proper Xvid/DivX codecs instead and magically my Tmpgenc conversions became error free. Don't use this if you convert Xvid/DivX to Mpeg using TMPGenc - you'll be pulling your hair out if you do.

Posted July 02, 2004 by deckard8. Tool version 2004 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 6 of 10 Functionality 6 of 10 Value for money 2 of 10 Overall score 2 of 10






Version 20040319 causes ASF, WMV and probably most other Windows Media Formats to play at sporadic speeds, especially if you try to seek through them. Reverted to the last version and this problem does not exist.

Been a pretty decent tool other than this most recent problem.

Posted March 21, 2004 by Poppa_Meth. Tool version 20040319 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






This is a cool decoder. Try it out, it allows you a large number of visual enhancements to your Xvid and similar video playback.

Posted March 05, 2004 by soopafresh. Tool version 2004.02.25 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 8 of 10 Functionality 9 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






Highly configurable, has resizing & aspect correction, noise & sharpen filters, & much more. This is my choice for DivX (3,4, or 5) playback.

Posted August 19, 2003 by zizou108. Tool version Dec 11, 2002 using OS Win98
Ease of use 8 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






Great filter. It can play almost anything you would want. My version is from Dec. 02 so newer versions are probably available, but I have had no problems with it yet. It has so many post-proccessing options that it can be a little overwhelming if you want to try them and a little hard to test because the options don't take effect right away.

Posted June 15, 2003 by donny661. Tool version 0.4.6 using OS WinME
Ease of use 8 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10





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