FFDShow Video Decoder 1.3.4534
The main advantage of this video decoder is the low amount of resources it consumes, even when performing its most complex tasks.
If your CPU though becomes overloaded, this tool will reduce post-processing automatically.
Nevertheless, the application only runs on computers with CPU’s supporting MMX (MultiMedia eXperience) instructions. You can find out such information about your CPU by using a small tool, named Cpu-Z.
FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder is based on the original DirectShow filter from XviD, a GPL'ed implementation of MPEG4 encoder. In order to perform video decompression, it uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project.
It improves the visual quality of low bitrate movies due to its post-processing code from MPlayer.
Installation takes seconds and you can choose which components to deploy (VFW interface, DXVA video decoder, AviSynth scripts serving and application plugins for AviSynth and VirtualDub). The set up process is highly customizable and you have a very large options list.
FFDShow’s features are truly complex and this virtual item supports other formats and standards as well: Xvid, DivX 4, DivX 5, DivX 6, DivX 7, DivX 8; MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v1; WMV1/7, WMV2/8; HuffYUV in YV12 colorspace; H263, H263+, H264; MP3, AC3, DTS, E-AC3, AAC and many others.
To conclude, FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder has all the qualities of a reliable software tool: incredibly lightweight, highly customizable, easy to use, system resources-friendly, and, as a decoding application, it supports a great variety of formats.
It is powerful and it delivers great performance, both as a codec and as a post-processing tool.
cvekla on 15 April 2013
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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2013-03-12
When streaming after few days audio is DEsyncronised.
Solution is back to codec from 2011y or 2012y.
OPODER on 28 December 2012
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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2012-12-13
Good Codec Package, But some codecs doesn't work well... Like AAC :/
teleping on 27 July 2011
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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2011-07-25
@Al Jung:
The encoders were removed, last version to have them seems to be around rev. 3670. Reasons were outdated, buggy and inferior encoders; you should use standalone encoders (x264vfw or x264 for h264 encodings, standalone XviD for xvids..).
More about the issue at doom9: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120465
