FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20040806 Alpha download

August 8, 2004

magix used our news submit to tell us about this latest update for FFDShow he spotted over at Free-Codecs. FFDShow is DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX and XVID movies using libavcodec or xvid and comes with a set of video postprocessing filters. FFDShow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. This software is based on the DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder. FFDSHOW can be used as a decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies.

Features:

fast video decompression using optimized MMX, SSE and 3DNow! code
support for different codecs: XviD, all DivX versions, MS WMV, MPEG-1 and - MPEG-2- image postprocessing for higher playback quality
automatic quality control: automatically reduces postprocessing level when CPU load is high- hue, saturation and luminance correction- experimental sharpening filter- noising (of course if you want it)- presets
completely free software: ffdshow is distributed under GPL- support for various subtitle formats

Changes
in this version:

added mp2, mp3, ac3 and aac codecs selection to installer
headphone virtual spatialization channel mixer from VideoLAN
vc6 compilation fix
DTS S/PDIF fixes
fixed libmad usage
use generic fir design routines in dolby decoder
merged vp3"s mmx decoder functions into theora library (by vp3 at o8 dot enjoy dot ne dot jp, found at theora mailing list)

If you
would like to try this software, we suggest you visit over at SourceForge, where you can learn more about it. On that page you will also find the downoad. Keep in mind that this is an Alpha version! For those of us that are wanting to try a stable version, you will also find the June 17th 2002 release available there as well.

Source: SourceForge