Download LAV Filters 0.66

Version 0.66 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 part of the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack, among others. There are also media players, such as Media Player Classic – Home Cinema and VLC Media Player, which already have it on board. In version 0.65 the following changes and improvements have been made:

LAV Splitter

• NEW: Added options to increase the queue size for increased buffering
• Changed: Switched ASF/WMV demuxing to a new demuxer from Libav
• Fixed: Improved seeking with MPEG-TS files which contain teletext streams

LAV Videos

• NEW: Support for DXVA2-Native decoding of HEVC 10-bit with EVR on supported GPUs
• Changed: 4K Video Decoding on AMD graphics card is now enabled (needs recent drivers to work properly)
• Changed: DXVA2-CB decoding uses less memory on NVIDIA graphics cards
• Fixed: H264 DXVA2 decoding failed when no SPS/PPS was available in the media type
• Fixed: Conversion of RGB48 to RGB32/24 did not properly use dithering
• Fixed: Improved handling of a few DVD menu quirks
• Fixed: Decoding 10-bit video with EVR could result in a black screen

LAV Audio

• Changed: 5.1 audio favors the “Side” 5.1 layout, which conforms to modern surround standards