Download LAV Filters 0.55.3

Version 0.55.3 of the LAV Filters has been released. The LAV Filters are a collection of open source DirectShow filters that allow the most common formats of audio and video to be played in a media player of your choice. It is similar to the FFDShow filters, which seem to be losing popularity lately. For example, the K-Lite Codec Pack still offers the choice between the FFDShow and LAV Filters, while the latest edition of the Combined Community Codec Pack even only offers the LAV Filters. Since version 0.55 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Version 0.55.3

LAV Splitter

• Improved handling of Annex B H.264 in many containers
• Improved support for external source filters without seeking ability (live sources)
• Fixed duration in some MP4/MOV files
• Fixed stream program assignment for some MPEG-TS files (resulted in some streams not visible)

LAV Videos

• Added support for TSCC2
• Fixed a crash when playing certain H.264 files with QuickSync or CUVID

Version 0.55.2

LAV Splitter

• Improved support for MP4-style H.264 in AVI
• Further improvements for AAC in MPEG-TS
• Small improvements to handling Blu-rays with odd stream configurations
• Improved handling of Ogg Vorbis streams

LAV Videos

• Basic support for playing DVDs at different playback rates
• Fixed DXVA2 resource cleanup which may have caused a crash in some situations with DXVA2-Native
• Fixed A/V Sync when using the WMV9 DMO decoder (especially noticable after seeking)

LAV Audio

• Improved AC3 decoding quality (thanks to madshi for the patch in ffmpeg)

Version 0.55.1

General

• Clicking the Tray Icon with a Property Page already active brings it back to the front

LAV Splitter

• Added an option to disable quality-based audio stream selection (selects the first stream matching the language preferences)
• Removed Bitrate from audio quality criterias, because its too unreliable at this point.

LAV Videos

• Fixed YADIF deinterlacing (broken after a ffmpeg update on 0.55)

LAV Audio

• Switched to Triangular Dithering for 16-bit Integer conversions