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Rating by Swedaniel on
Dec 15, 2023 Version: 0.55.3
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Excellent Awesomeness! I only have one compliant - When are you going to support VVC / h266? The official specs have been out since February, and stuff has been using it. But LAV does not support it yet.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Review by TheGameMaster on
Oct 25, 2023 Version: 0.78
OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by ptv on
May 5, 2023 Version: 0.77.2
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by 123 on
Feb 3, 2023 Version: 123
OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 1/10
Functionality: 1/10
Value for money: 1/10
Overall: 1/10
Rating by josearmando on
Dec 29, 2022 Version: LAV-Filters 0.77.1
OS: Windows 11 Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
I use the LAV-Filters many years on nvidia hardware (GT 960, GTX 1060 ti) and it is a nice and compact filter pack for playback of different video and audio codecs. I am very happy with it. I do not understand, why other people have problems in combination with video editing programs. I use different video programs to encode videos with CPU and CUDA features and NO program has a problem with it! Maybe other users with problems use the wrong settings or the video software is very unstable. I use Adobe Premiere, Nero Video, Handbrake, Xmedia Recode, StaxRip, ... with Nvidia CUDA and all programs work fine.
If you use MPC Player BE or HC you do not need the LAV-Filters, because the video player already contain the lav filters.
If you use MPC Player BE or HC you do not need the LAV-Filters, because the video player already contain the lav filters.
Review by James Pous on
May 22, 2022 Version: 0.76.3
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Used to work perfect with my NVIDIA card. Now I changed to AMD Radeon RX6600 and there is judder with some h264 coded movies and Servus TV HD and my DVB-Viewer with DXVA2 activated.
Review by Robert on
May 22, 2022 Version: LAV-Filters 0.76.1 / 0.76.1-3 Nightly
OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 7/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 7/10
Entirely based on the usage of CUDA in video editor and authoring software.
Not easy to use, there is too much choises of settings in there, which can be too confusing for a lot of people, where they might end up doing some wrong choices of settings, which can mess things up.
Hence i can't give it a higher rating than i did.
My experience is that LAV-Filters kills the CUDA support in both TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 7 and Authoring Works 5 & 6.
I had to uninstall LAV-Filters, do a pretty hard cleaning of left overs and return back to ffdshow tryouts and Haali Media Splitter to get the CUDA support back.
Hence the low rating i gave it on its functionality, because its also a CUDA killer.
LAV-Filters works well on other points if you just wanna use it for getting support for playing various video formats.
But you have to stay away from it if you use CUDA supporting video editors and DVD/Blu-ray authoring software.
Not easy to use, there is too much choises of settings in there, which can be too confusing for a lot of people, where they might end up doing some wrong choices of settings, which can mess things up.
Hence i can't give it a higher rating than i did.
My experience is that LAV-Filters kills the CUDA support in both TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 7 and Authoring Works 5 & 6.
I had to uninstall LAV-Filters, do a pretty hard cleaning of left overs and return back to ffdshow tryouts and Haali Media Splitter to get the CUDA support back.
Hence the low rating i gave it on its functionality, because its also a CUDA killer.
LAV-Filters works well on other points if you just wanna use it for getting support for playing various video formats.
But you have to stay away from it if you use CUDA supporting video editors and DVD/Blu-ray authoring software.
Review by Dano77 on
Feb 24, 2022 Version: 0.76.0
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 3/10
Functionality: 5/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 5/10
Rating by Hemraj gole on
May 11, 2021 Version: 1.7.21481
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by fvc on
Dec 27, 2020 Version: 0.74.1
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
November 2019 - LAV Filters are an open-source Direct Show audio-video filter wrapper, written by a very good german developer, of the FFMPEG libraries, focused on high quality direct playback. The trio (Splitter, Video Decoder and Audio Decoder) is reliable, stable, with really few bugs. Respect to the MPC-BE or Pot Player integrated filters, the LAV combo sometimes exhibit some issue when dealing with streaming video. But the developer explained that its filters are not really focused on the compatibility for online videos. Infact, for playing high quality video and audio files from disk, LAV Filters remain the most reliable combo, correct, a de facto standard for HTPC users on Windows enviroment. As usual, MPC-HC + LAV Filters + madVR (or EVR on Intel - Intel context adaptive scaling) remain the best tool to watch videos with Win 8 or Win 10.
Review by Ziggy1978 on
Nov 9, 2019 Version: 0.74.28 Nightly
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
This review is for new users. October 2019. LAV Filters is the only combo for splitter, audio and video decoding that I can advice. It's stable, reliable, focused on quality, on active development (by a great developer). The trio MPC-HC + LAV + madVR (video renderer) is the Gold Standard for the HTPC users on Windows platform.
Review by Ziggy1978 on
Oct 5, 2019 Version: 0.74.1
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by Pirockar on
Jul 13, 2019 Version: 0.70.2.17-git
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by Ziggy1978 on
Jul 1, 2019 Version: 0.74.1.16
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
as far as i know d3d11 only works with lavvideo AND madvr
Review by yonta on
Oct 13, 2018 Version: latest
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Hi,
When set to D3D11 for video decoder, it give me the message "3D11 requires Windows 8 or newer, and is not supported on this OS". I'm running Windows 10 64Bit Pro, with an Nividia GeForce 1060 6gig card, AMD FX 8021 8-core, 16gigs RAM. It should work! Any fix for this? Or is CUVID or DXVA2 (copy-back or native?) better for my set up. I'm using MadVr, XySubFilter, with MPC-BE (with FFDSHOW Tryouts for audio - no offense meant it just works better on my Yamaha 7.1 system than LAV Audio). I'm concerned with quality over performance. Using it for all media forms. LAV Spliter is THE spliter to use.
Thanks,
Rodney
When set to D3D11 for video decoder, it give me the message "3D11 requires Windows 8 or newer, and is not supported on this OS". I'm running Windows 10 64Bit Pro, with an Nividia GeForce 1060 6gig card, AMD FX 8021 8-core, 16gigs RAM. It should work! Any fix for this? Or is CUVID or DXVA2 (copy-back or native?) better for my set up. I'm using MadVr, XySubFilter, with MPC-BE (with FFDSHOW Tryouts for audio - no offense meant it just works better on my Yamaha 7.1 system than LAV Audio). I'm concerned with quality over performance. Using it for all media forms. LAV Spliter is THE spliter to use.
Thanks,
Rodney
Review by TheGameMaster on
Oct 13, 2018 Version: 0.73.1
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
"until 0.72, there is a huge delay playback from rewinding a MP4 video files, and it doesn't occur in 0.71"
Same here, I'll stick with the 0.71 so far.
Same here, I'll stick with the 0.71 so far.
Review by follapijas on
Sep 17, 2018 Version: 0.72
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 2/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Best codec i have used for years with MPC-HC until 0.72, there is a huge delay playback from rewinding a MP4 video files, and it doesn't occur in 0.71. Rewind while the video is playing with no notable delay is very important for my daily use is why i can only rate 0.72 'Ease of use' 4 stars. Since the issue i had revert back to 0.71 for the ease of use.
Review by GNAStar on
Jul 4, 2018 Version: 0.72
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 4/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Being the curious techie I am, I tried the nightly build and for some reason, my videos have slow seek issues. Once I went back to the stable build, I can seek through my video files with ease. Not sure what has changed, but I'll continue to look into this, and stick with the stable version for now.
Review by djb247365 on
Apr 6, 2018 Version: 0.71.0-28
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8/10
Rating by Wakaku on
Mar 11, 2018 Version: 0.71.0.10
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
A great Windows DirectX filter supporting virtually every audio video and container format I use it with mpc-be but it works with all modern players
The only issue I have is that hevc hardware acceleration doesn't work with intel quicksync it does work with dxva2 and d3d11 😶
The only issue I have is that hevc hardware acceleration doesn't work with intel quicksync it does work with dxva2 and d3d11 😶
Review by Ianas on
Mar 5, 2018 Version: 0.71
OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by McNibbaGewk on
Dec 22, 2017 Version: 0.70.2-83 Nightly
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Hi, Images are from MPC-HC media player if anyone wondered.
Review by John on
Nov 18, 2017 Version: 0.70.2.1
OS: Other Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 8/10
From LAV 0.70.2-35 Nightly windows xp support has been stopped.
END OF SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS XP
RIP MPC-HC,MPC-BE,LAV FILTERS :(
END OF SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS XP
RIP MPC-HC,MPC-BE,LAV FILTERS :(
Review by DragonGlass on
Aug 20, 2017 Version: 0.7.2.44
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Well, that's a surprise!
.ax is a DirectShow filter.
The documentation doesn't mention anything about making a direct call to them with "OpenConfiguration" as a passed argument.
That's pretty clever, like a batch file that calls itself as a reg file.
I've never run the installer, just extracted the component files. Didn't think to look at install_script.iss.
.ax is a DirectShow filter.
The documentation doesn't mention anything about making a direct call to them with "OpenConfiguration" as a passed argument.
That's pretty clever, like a batch file that calls itself as a reg file.
I've never run the installer, just extracted the component files. Didn't think to look at install_script.iss.
Review by FredThompson on
Jul 24, 2016 Version: 0.68.1-31
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Of course there is GUI - just go to LAV filters configuration folder and run it, side to this whenever filter is active it can display icon on Taskbar - just activate it (Enable System Tray Icon).
Review by pandy on
Jul 23, 2016 Version: 0.68.1-31
OS: Other Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
LAV-Filters don't have a GUI for setup.
What is the source of the screenshot?
What is the source of the screenshot?
Review by FredThompson on
Jul 23, 2016 Version: 0.68.1-31
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8/10
Happy to report that LAVFilters 0.68.0 stable doesn't crash nvcuvid.dll version 7.17.13.6200 from 362.00 whql drivers and NVIDIA CUVID in LAV Video Decoder can be used again.
Review by reddevil on
Mar 18, 2016 Version: 0.68.0
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Thanks!
Review by matijah on
Dec 29, 2015 Version: 2.513
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
@matijah
nvcuvid.dll (NVIDIA CUVID in LAV Video Decoder) crashes on my systems playing many newly encoded hevc files. Only option i had was to turn to dxva (copy back) in LAV Video decoder.
nvcuvid.dll (NVIDIA CUVID in LAV Video Decoder) crashes on my systems playing many newly encoded hevc files. Only option i had was to turn to dxva (copy back) in LAV Video decoder.
Review by reddevil on
Dec 28, 2015 Version: 0.67.0
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
@RBX
And I thought that was only me who had the problem playing HEVC files encoded from VC-1 source so I had to uncheck the HEVC box from NVIDIA CUVID in LAV Video Decoder!
And I thought that was only me who had the problem playing HEVC files encoded from VC-1 source so I had to uncheck the HEVC box from NVIDIA CUVID in LAV Video Decoder!
Review by matijah on
Dec 28, 2015 Version: 2.513
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Hi. In case somebody would (still) want to equip: an old — 32-bit — Win. XP SP2 PC (like I needed to do), I HAD TO test, rather tediously... several old versions, since:
from v° 0.60 on, "LAVVideo.ax" refuses to register, while the other components register alright (up to 0.67 anyway, = today).
So: 32-bits XP machine: up to v° 0.59.1 only, for the VIDEO component — and in my case...
.
from v° 0.60 on, "LAVVideo.ax" refuses to register, while the other components register alright (up to 0.67 anyway, = today).
So: 32-bits XP machine: up to v° 0.59.1 only, for the VIDEO component — and in my case...
.
Review by bulgom on
Dec 27, 2015 Version: 0.59.1
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
LAV video decoder works for most media, but fails for some which were converted from VC-1 to HEVC.
Review by RBX on
Jan 20, 2015 Version: 0.63.0
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
The best.
Review by flashandpan007 on
May 17, 2014 Version: 0.61.2
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
hi.
first i want to say im sorry if this is not the place to ask this question
i wanna use lav filters on pot player
i just wanna know whats the difference beteween lav splitter & lav splitter source?
and whitch one is better?
first i want to say im sorry if this is not the place to ask this question
i wanna use lav filters on pot player
i just wanna know whats the difference beteween lav splitter & lav splitter source?
and whitch one is better?
Review by Doomsday.a on
Apr 21, 2014 Version: 0.61
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
@El Heggunte: thanks for the link but i downloaded the new version [0.61.1] posted today.
Anyway, the batch files from the .zip folder of the link you post works all fine.
Thanks.
Anyway, the batch files from the .zip folder of the link you post works all fine.
Thanks.
Review by dontrythisathome on
Mar 7, 2014 Version: 0.61.1
OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 10/10
@ donttrythisathome: re-download from http://files.1f0.de/lavf/LAVFilters-0.61.zip
It's because LAVFilters.Dependencies.manifest wass missing from the original zip for the 32-bit version.
It's because LAVFilters.Dependencies.manifest wass missing from the original zip for the 32-bit version.
Review by El Heggunte on
Mar 6, 2014 Version: 0.61.0
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
I only report an issue. I recently download 0.61 release and new batch files are impossible to install into system32. I need it because i play some 32bit application.
Review by dontrythisathome on
Mar 6, 2014 Version: 0.61
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
@ Post by prijatelj.v: The crashes / issues you describe are the result of interferences/crack ups in the graph creation process. Before installing Lav, make sure Haali is deinstalled properly, also deactivate the internal filters of your softwareplayer for the formats you want to split/decode with LAV. In the LAV options theres an "Input formats" tab, you can select Raw LPCM-audio as well. To avoid a messed up graph building, set everything to LAV, do not use any further postprocessing filters.
You can provide yourself much better/faster performance than with tha Haali setup (its 6 years old, no bugfixes/updates), LAV is constantly improved by its developer Nevcairiel (THX btw :). For guides /troubleshooting I strongly recommend checking out the Doom9 Forum, the Lav- and other software developers post there and are very kind providing profound help and tipps :)
You can provide yourself much better/faster performance than with tha Haali setup (its 6 years old, no bugfixes/updates), LAV is constantly improved by its developer Nevcairiel (THX btw :). For guides /troubleshooting I strongly recommend checking out the Doom9 Forum, the Lav- and other software developers post there and are very kind providing profound help and tipps :)
Review by tuco76 on
Aug 24, 2013 Version: 0.58.2
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
some things work great but...
LAV audio decoder crash...see here : http://www.zaslike.com/files/o7c7drzvll137u11l7un.jpg
GSpot crash in rendering..see here : http://www.zaslike.com/files/tc3ps4y2j3i4te38v0pu.jpg
can not be decoded (or do not see the function) for RAW video and uncompressed RAW audio,I consider very important for the (Subtitle Workshop 2.51)
I'm going back to the proven combination : ffdshow + Haali Media Splitter
LAV audio decoder crash...see here : http://www.zaslike.com/files/o7c7drzvll137u11l7un.jpg
GSpot crash in rendering..see here : http://www.zaslike.com/files/tc3ps4y2j3i4te38v0pu.jpg
can not be decoded (or do not see the function) for RAW video and uncompressed RAW audio,I consider very important for the (Subtitle Workshop 2.51)
I'm going back to the proven combination : ffdshow + Haali Media Splitter
Review by prijatelj.v on
Jun 23, 2013 Version: 0.58
OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8/10
Actually its faster than Haali for quite a while already. At least from what i recognized when i compared, few versions ago. Besides its better performance it delivers much more stream infos.
Review by tuco76 on
May 30, 2013 Version: 0.57
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
This is a major release in my opinion. Although the changelog contains few update information, it actually has numerous small updates included within since the last stable version. This version seems faster than the previous ones. LAV getting better with time. We may have to ditch Haali Media Splitter in coming days. LAV splitter is going to take over ;)
Thanks devs for this package!
Thanks devs for this package!
Review by pearlblack15 on
Apr 10, 2013 Version: 0.56
OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Please ignore my previous comment, that problem happened because I usually overwrite the old versions of the DirectShow filters, instead of registering the new ones.
Review by El Heggunte on
Nov 28, 2012 Version: 0.54
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
On Windows XP, Media Player Classic Homecinema may be unable to use LAV Filters for playing DVDs. Here is the workaround that I've found:
open MPC-HC (or MPC-BE), goto "Options", "External Filters", and then add "LAV Video Decoder", add Media Type "MEDIATYPE_DVD_ENCRYPTED_PACK", add Sub Type "MEDIASUBTYPE_MPEG2_VIDEO".
open MPC-HC (or MPC-BE), goto "Options", "External Filters", and then add "LAV Video Decoder", add Media Type "MEDIATYPE_DVD_ENCRYPTED_PACK", add Sub Type "MEDIASUBTYPE_MPEG2_VIDEO".
Review by El Heggunte on
Nov 27, 2012 Version: 0.54
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
LAV Audio goes out of sync when connected to other ASF splitters, such as the GDCL WMV/WMA Parser. Besides, the MPEG-4 ALS decoder again has the problem that was fixed in revision 0.50.5-xxxxxx (it consumes 100% of the CPU-time on a Pentium-4, and freezes MPC-HC if the internal Audio Switcher is enabled).
Review by El Heggunte on
Jul 15, 2012 Version: 0.51.2
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8/10
Works great with very smooth video on my old pentium pro PC with Nvidia card. I have had problems with the LAV Audio decoder on 6 channel AC-3 audio. Audio volume changes seem exaggerated when audio goes from soft to load. This problem is rare and is not noticeable on most audio tracks so it's not a big problem but I have found that Divx decoder does not have the same problem.
Review by danzeb on
Nov 21, 2011 Version: .40
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8/10
Only if it would have supported Intel Quick Sync for Video Decoding
Review by JEskandari on
Nov 8, 2011 Version: 0.38
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
the best splitter for mpc-hc and htpc's !
Review by VincAlastor on
May 25, 2011 Version: 0.27
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
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