Download ffdshow 2004-10-12 alpha

A new official alpha version of the DirectShow filter ffdshow is available on Source Forge. The update is numbered 2004-10-12 alpha and is in the usual version available, but now also in a pre SSE– and SSE2instructions optimized version (see note below). With this program, DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG1, and MPEG2 files can be played in various media players. Ffdshow uses the libav codec from the ffmpeg project for video decompression, mplayer’s postprocessing code for improved visual quality of low bitrate files, and is based on XviD’s original DirectShow filter. In this release, the bug that caused the Explorer to crash under Windows XP should be fixed. The full release notes look like this:

Notes:

• This build should fix Windows XP explorer crashes.
• Three editions are available: special for SSE and SSE2 capable CPUs and generic for all others. SSE a SSE2 build were compiled using Intel C++ Compiler 8.1, generic build was compiled with Microsoft VC6.
• Known bug: in SSE and SSE2 builds Avisynth image processing filter in ffdshow isn’t working.
• Subtitles correction may not work correctly in all cases (but should not crash). These feature was ported from SubRip and if SubRip will give different resulf for a given subtitles, please send them to me.

Changes:

• MS ADPCM support
• two preferred vobsubs languages
• configurable swscaler gaussian blur strength for vobsubs
• support bmp and gif as bitmap overlay image
• option to use WAVEFORMATEX instead of WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE on output if no custom channelmapping
• bug fix: don’t always recompute letterboxing size and don’t always check for subtitles file
• more blending modes
• IDR interval and deblock parameters for x264
• working on image overlay
• vobsubs scaling
• proper alignment in ICL+GCC libavcodec build
• key shortcut for subtitles language cycling
• possibilty to override vobsubs position
• dwstring substr and c_str related fix
• recognize cz for Czech in idx, don’t show duplicate languages ​​in vobsub config
• don’t set merit to “not used” if it previously had different value than one of defined in ffdshow
• yet another fix in corrections
• another subtitles correction fix
• fix in capital letters correction
• more keys working
• keyboard shortcuts and remote messages for cycling presets
• orthography correction from subrip
• separate page for text subtitles options, more complete subtitles correction from Subrip
• adding text subtitles correction from subrip
• support for 8-bit samples on input
• fixed another crash in vobsub
• fixed crash in getNext with pictFull==true and pictHalf==true
• enabled trellis quantization for H.263(+)