Download LAV Filters 0.76.0

Version 0.76.0 of the LAV Filters has been released. The LAV Filters are a collection of open source DirectShow filters, which 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. In addition, there are also media players that already have it on board, such as Media Player Classic – Home Cinema and VLC Media Player. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

LAV Splitter

• NEW: Added an option to re-evaluate subtitle stream selection when the audio language changes
• NEW: Improved advanced subtitle selection syntax with negated flags (positive and negative flags can now be combined for more flexible selection)
• Changed: Improved variant/stream selection in DASH and HLS streams
• Changed: Video streams with the highest bitrate are preferred (if equal resolution)

LAV Videos

• NEW: Support for passing DoVi metadata to video renderers
• NEW: BobWeaver (BWDIF) software deinterlacer (a blend of YADIF and Weston, focusing on their individual strengths)
• NEW: Support for FIC screen capture video
• Changed: D3D11 video surfaces are flushed to black before decoding, avoiding green artifacts
• Changed: D3D11 devices are created up to feature level 12.1

LAV Audio

• Fixed: TrueHD bitstreaming could result in A/V sync issues or dropouts
• Removed: Support for the external DTS decoder (dtsdecoderdll.dll) has been removed