FFDSHOW rev. 2063 (20080804) (open source)

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PVR4me 27 Oct 2008 10:25 FFDSHOW rev. 2253 (20081026)
FFdshow is great for pros, and pro-ams But so is CCCP. And CCCP takes the pain of learning out of FFshow nightlies for everyone else Once upon a time I used FFdshow nightlies
blackmoor 31 Aug 2008 17:50 FFDSHOW rev. 2094 (20080830)
I've been using these "nightly builds" for several years now and without this, my HTPC would be a far inferior beast for all it's processing and graphical power. Read ALL the information you can find on this software and suitable settings (for example, www.team-mediaportal.com forums), read it again, then install it, set it up, and enjoy vastly superior images, especially on large HD1080p screens. Or, keep using 'one setting suits all' products from your regular over-priced vendors. It did take me a while to work everything out, but I can now take a fresh install and customise it appropriately in 2 mins, so it's not difficult, but I will admit that I couldn't have done this with any degree of certainty until I actually researched the software. However, When you buy a car, do you expect the Owners Manual to tell you EVERYTHING about the vehicle, or do you rely on third party manuals, expert mechanics and home-trained motoring geeks? Same with this - let the developers do the good stuff designing the beastie, and let the geeks have fun breaking it, working out what works for them (the developers might not even know this!) and then publishing their findings online. Seriously good results - my wife even commented on it...
Rikoshay 15 Jan 2008 5:44 FFDSHOW rev. 1771 (20080113)
I think I said it before, but the best builds so far come from msvc 2003. Was able to fix playback of a movie that seemed to have delay problems with when I got it.
Xplorer4 14 Jan 2008 16:58 FFDSHOW rev. 1771 (20080113)
And there has only been 3 official betas, the rest simply nightly builds pretty much.
avoidz 30 Dec 2007 4:44 FFDSHOW rev. 1734 (20071229)
Yeah, of course there will be beta versions, but FFDSHOW has been this way for a long time, and there's rarely any change log made available.
enpipi 12 Dec 2007 11:03 FFDSHOW rev. 1695 (20071210)
For all you guys mewling and pewking as Shakespeare would say ... In order to improve software, beta versions and voluntary bug reports are necessary. New versions mean new solutions and new functionality.
peter_new 30 Nov 2007 7:17 FFDSHOW rev. 1650 (20071128)
When there's going to be a stable version again???
avoidz 16 Nov 2007 2:42 FFDSHOW rev. 1606 (20071114)
Yeah, still good, but just how many revisions of this thing are there going to be?? The 2004 stable version works well; is anyone on this project going to release a final stable one? Otherwise, FFDSHOW is becoming less and less essential...
majiktrip 21 Oct 2007 11:50 FFDSHOW rev. 1548 (20071019)
worked perfectly
MightyOne 15 Oct 2007 9:09 FFDSHOW rev. 1530 (20071014)
I'd be more impressed at this stage if FFDSHOW would surpass the 100 or so beta versions and come up with another Stable Version. Did all the good programmers leave ? ? ?
Dast 23 Sep 2007 16:12 FFDSHOW rev. 1471 (20070909)
Minus a star for this build because it doesn't seem to be able to handle subtitles (vobsubs) correctly. I'm using the stable build until this is solved.
Sliztzan 17 Sep 2007 5:31 FFDSHOW rev. 1471 (20070909)
In the beginnings of this codec they claim it was so much less CPU intensive than Divx. I don't know, I'm just taking their word for it. Now Divx codec has improved greatly from the early days so I've been testing this claim and don't see any improvement in CPU usage over the current Divx codec. The advantage this filter has over Divx is that after installation it will play most any video you have no matter what codec it uses. This is something Divx can't do.
joekb10 13 Sep 2007 18:31 FFDSHOW rev. 1471 (20070909)
A bug is found in VobSub of Subtitles section for bulit 1471 (20070909). It doesn't start up until I open the video window several times and it shows in the wrong position on screen. Yes, .srt and other format subtitle file just works great.
MightyOne 04 Jul 2007 5:02 FFDSHOW rev. 1324 (20070701) Beta 3
Excellent Package. From my understanding, this is codec manager as well. You can pick and choose and install different codecs and tell fdshow to use them instead of the pre-installed...should u want to. Its been working pretty good for me...but every know and then....something goes amiss. Not the greatest with .264. A MUST have if u ask me.
earthasa 12 Jun 2007 21:00 FFDSHOW rev. 1280 (20070612)
I am very happy with it. Only problem feature for me is the AC3 encoded output; it doesn't work with all audio sources, so I am forced to leave it disabled. IDEAL would be if it was only used for multi-channel (>3 ch) output, since spdif devices can all handle stereo pcm that the sound card outputs, compressing stereo/mono audio and losing quality doesn't make sense.
Qbidiot 05 Jun 2007 5:01 FFDSHOW rev. 1245 (20070604)
This software is absolutely fantastic. I only wish there was a change log. Would be nice to know if it's worth updating every other day.
joeb10 07 May 2007 21:04 FFDSHOW rev. 1133 (200700504)
Years ago, I refuse to trust this filter when I found it somehow was installing some codecs that doesn't always work until now it works perfect. Quicker response, no skippy frames and the best of all is no "blue screen of death". Works so good when using this filter with media player classic. I like what this filter has is the subtitle displayer with lots of styles to choose from. More user friendly than it was ever before. Keep it up, it's worth it.
BcMester 05 May 2007 2:15 FFDSHOW rev. 1133 (200700504)
I love the thing, I've never had ANY playback problems since I use it, but will the new version ever get out of beta? :)
Rikoshay 01 Mar 2007 17:07 FFDSHOW rev. 960(20070223)
A few weeks ago I had some problems running .MKV and even .OGM files. I just couldn't get a proper setup to watch anime with the Japanese audio as the one to play. Before this, I used MPC and the Ogg Splitter to play .ogg files and AAC, but finally decided to use FFDshow to playback those files... ...It works perfectly. Now I can normalize it properly in FFDshow, and use Matroska Media Splitter to play the .mkv files with Jpn audio first. Great down-mixing capabilities and fast, reliable seeking in the movies.
bigdog660 01 Feb 2007 8:52 FFDSHOW rev. 858 (20070130)
Just waiting for Dolby Digital Plus support ;-)
avoidz 18 Jan 2007 15:16 FFDSHOW rev. 788 (20070117)
This is essential software. But with no real changelog I'm not downloading the latest version. I still use ffdshow-20041012-sse2 with no problems.
jbeale 30 Dec 2006 15:25 FFDSHOW rev. 723 (20061229)
Beta FFDShow rev723 (20061229) fixes a problem with the current "stable" version, in that most codecs were not working under VirtualDub (which uses the VfW interface). EG. MPEG4, MPEG2 did not work. They do work on my machine with the rev723 version.
Zeos 11 Dec 2006 21:30 FFDSHOW rev. 684 (20061211)
FFDshow is all you need.. But why has a new version come out 10 times in the last 3 weeks? What problems are they fixing?
leviticus 10 Dec 2006 19:32 FFDSHOW rev. 673 (20061210)
Best codec out there!
neokilly 30 Nov 2006 7:33 FFDSHOW rev. 598 (20061127)
Yes, why the changelog disappeared for the last versions? It's more difficult to know if the new version is worth being installed if we don't know where the changes are IMHO
Xplorer4 30 Nov 2006 2:13 FFDSHOW rev. 598 (20061127)
Hell any more I only use this codec. :)
avoidz 19 Nov 2006 21:00 FFDSHOW rev. 529 (20061113)
Anyone got a changelog for this version?
thekingo7 13 Nov 2006 17:59 FFDSHOW rev. 514
This is an amazing little codec, would give it 10 stars if I could, can handle almost anything, and runs very smoothly in the backround.
thegadget 12 Nov 2006 10:23 FFDSHOW rev420
Every time I received a new avi from my supplier it needed a different codec for Windows MP10 - got real fed up ! Uninstall all the codecs - install FFDSHOW - plays everything - and with much better sound quality -stereo sounds like stereo now !
Xplorer4 11 Nov 2006 2:59 FFDSHOW rev420
This is one of only 2 codecs I use. I don;t bother with codec packs ffdshow and X-Vid MPEG 4 get all my jobs done. :)
levidos 25 Jun 2006 11:11 FFDSHOW 2006-05-26
"After our reviewers tried FFDSHOW they removed the DivX codecs from their PCs and never looked back." It's true. I don't use anything else anymore... :D
davide 25 Jun 2006 3:43 FFDSHOW 2006-05-26
Hi, this is my first posting! I updated to the latest version and had conflicts with WMP11 and PowerDVD which wouldn't play my avi files. I uninstalled the latest ffdshow 2006-05-06 and reinstalled 2005-12 which resolved the problem! At the time I didn't have time to play with the settings, which could be the problem. Never mind, I'll report back once I have a spare 5 mins. Apart from that previous versions have been faultless!
cyclope87 30 Apr 2006 7:29 FFDSHOW 2006-04-20 SSE
thaks for all
avoidz 23 Apr 2006 4:14 FFDSHOW 2006-04-20 SSE
@ michi90 - it does look different on my PC, but if these later builds DO work better on most people's systems I'll take your word for it and use them. And yes, an updated Changelog would be nice with each new release.
OAKside24 23 Apr 2006 0:39 FFDSHOW 2006-04-20 SSE
I'd appreciate if I knew the Who What When Where *Why on all these FFDSHOW releases. There is no changelog, notes, description since way back. Please..
amarinci 21 Apr 2006 16:09 FFDSHOW 2006-04-13 SSE
This is alfa and omega for *.avi files.
michi90 29 Mar 2006 11:51 FFDSHOW 2005-12-21 SSE
"ffdshow-20041012-sse2.exe Sourceforge build is the best version of this excellent codec pack. The picture quality on the older build is much better than newer FFDSHOWs" I don't think so. In my eyes there are no visual differences. Newer versions (I'm using 20050803) have the advantage of stable overlay colors, when you run ffdshow settings (and you don't have to re-adjust your settings anymore for example with zoomplayer overlay reset etc.). In earlier (official) versions (2004) you have to use the overlay setting inside ffdshow to adjust the picture.
khalid80 21 Mar 2006 8:10 F

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