Version history for FFDSHOW 64-bit

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Changes for rev. 4507 (20130426) - rev. 4513 (20130525)

• [r4513]
• Fixed compilation warnings/errors when using Windows SDK 7.0 (e.g. VC10's WSDK)
• [r4512]
• Sync with IntelQuickSync Decoder 0.43 (rev90)
• - D3D11 decode + VPP is not default will be used only when needed.
• - D3D11 performance enhancement
• - Codec name now specifies which HW acceleration is ued (D3D9/11)
• [r4511]
• Fix possible deadlock with downstream filter.
• Based on patch of Mark Opaskar.
• [r4510]
• sync with QS decoder r88 - compilation issues when win8 SDK wasn't installed.
• [r4509]
• updated blacklist
• [r4508]
• Sync with IntelQuickSync Decoder 0.42 (rev87)
• - D3D11 decode + VPP. Windows 8 only feature. May not work on switchable graphics solutions.
• - Fixed some minor issues with VPP (time stamp interpolation).
• - Fixed AVC1 frame constructor. No longer will it process AnnexB streams. This should fix TV streaming. It doesn't support fragmented streams (NALs that span more than 1 packet).
• - Made legal license identical across my files.

Changes for rev. 4399 (20120322) - v1.2.4422

• Bugfixes
• Lots of updates for libavcodec that bring bug fixes, performance enhancements, and security fixes.
• Disable "Detect soft telecine and average frame durations" if 3:2 pulldown is being applied in AviSynth filter.
• IAMStreamSelect: fix duplicated subtitle list in case of multiple ffdshow instances
• If a matroska container had hidden leading chapter and Haali's splitter was used and tray icon was right-clicked, ffdshow crashed.
• Various fixes regarding input mediatype handling, strides, and pin re-connection.
• Various fixes regarding H.264 SPS parsing
• Fixed decoding of 96khz 32bit audio with libavcodec
• Fixed decoding of AAC audio with libavcodec when extradata is missing
• Better handling of non-mod4 resolutions
• Workaround for freeze in Powerpoint 2010
• AC3 encoder was producing improper bitstream when connected to file writer filter
• Various fixes for audio bitstreaming
• New and improved features
• Support for H.264 10-bit 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4/RGB
• Support for H.264 8-bit 4:2:2/4:4:4/RGB, 4:2:0 was already supported
• Support for various 10-bit and 16-bit colorspaces
• Optimized YV12 to NV12 conversion
• Enabled high quality RGB32 conversion by default
• Added option to select a preferred output colorspace
• Added Intel QuickSync decoder. This provides hardware acceleration decoding of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2. Requires the integrated GPU of Intel Sandy Bridge processors.
• Added DXVA video filter for hardware accelerated decoding. Supports H.264 and VC-1 video. Also includes subtitle support.
• Various additions to the application blacklist and whitelist
• Added support for Blu-ray PGS subtitles
• Removed support for USF subtitles
• Various improvements for the handling of ASS/SSA subtitles. More tags are supported now, but not yet all of them.
• Various improvements for the rendering of text-based subtitles
• By default now only subtitle files are shown that match the video filename. This behavior can be adjusted through an option on the "Try, dialog & Paths" page in ffdshow settings.
• Created new format option in ffdshow audio decoder for the QT PCM variants (such as TWOS). They were previously part if the Uncompressed audio option.
• ffmpeg-mt has been merged into libavcodec
• Multi-threaded decoding is now used by default for H.264, MPEG-1/2, FFV1, and DV video.
• Added decoding support for Indeo 4 and Indeo 5 video
• Floating point output for libavcodec AAC, AC3, E-AC3, DTS, Vorbis, and Nellymoser decoders.
• Added option to disable jitter correction for audio decoder
• Improved performance of Deband filter
• Removed some encoders for which the interface that ffdshow provided was outdated and unmaintained, such as Xvid and H.264. You should use the official codecs instead.
• Removed some encoders that were considered obsolete or unstable.
• Updates
• Updated Boost library to v1.49
• Updated zlib library to v1.2.6
• Updated minilzo library to v2.06
• Updated unrar library to v4.10
• Updated libsamplerate to v0.1.8
• Removed mp3lib
• Removed xvidcore

Changes for Beta 6 - rev. 3154 (20091209) Beta 7

• Bugfixes
• Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
• Several memory leak fixes
• Subtitle fixes:
• Don't show closed caption if "Subtitles" is not checked
• Non-DVD subtitles: check if "Subtitles" is checked before showing subtitles
• Setting "Maintain outside text inside screen" was not always applied correctly
• Subtitle file could not be disabled during DVD playback
• Duration of SSA move tags was randomly applied
• Various fixes to alignment, line spacing, movement and positioning of ASS, SSA and SRT subtitles
• Several crash fixes
• Fixes in the Audio mixer and LFE crossover filter:
• Center and LFE were too loud when downmixing 5.1->2ch
• If the original sound had LFE channel, it was overwritten
• If the center channel existed, left and right channels were ignored
• Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
• Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
• Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
• Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
• ffdshow.ax failed to register when a registry key was missing
• Removed black lines in Perspective Correction filter
• ffdshow would crash when using the Grab filter and the Resize filter with aspect ratio correction
• Many fixes across multiple ffdshow components including OSD, deinterlacing, remote API, DVD and MPEG-2 playback
• New and improved features
• New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
• DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
• New color space converters:
• Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
• Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
• High quality chroma upscaling
• Added dithering to reduce "banding"
• Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
• RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
• Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
• Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
• New RGB conversion options:
• Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
• YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
• Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
• Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
• General code cleanup
• SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
• FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
• FFDShowRemoteAPI:
• Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
• New command to disable FF/RW OSD
• When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
• Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
• OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
• Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
• AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
• "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
• Better handling of DVD menus
• Improved autocrop algorithm
• Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
• Added soft telecine detection
• Added several new preset autoload conditions
• libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
• libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
• Various updates to libavcodec

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