FFDShow 1.3.4534

One of the most essential downloads on the Windows platform.

This is the backbone of your directshow based player.

if I try to add flv extension to show thumbnail in vista by adding following it shows very well thumbnail in foldes but in temporary internet files folder it generates error

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

ok playback issues fixed since last few revisions, had made playback under vista media centre very skippy, it was a combination of nvidia and FFDshow, they werent working together, so u have to d/l the 174.74 beta drivers for vista, for it to work well, also d/l the metroska splitter to work with it and playback is 100% beautifull, after installing these 3 things you will never ever need any codec at all EVER IT PLAYS EVERYTHING with the
174.74 nvidia beta
FFDSHOW
METROSKA SPLITTA

The same goes for the standard build

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is better or this one?

cool! works great! I was trying to view an avi that windows media player was having trouble with. Furthermore, I could not convert the file to .amv either. Installed FFDShow, now everything is working great!

Install ffdshow for all audio and video formats.
Install Matroska Splitter to open file containers like OGG, OGM, KMV, MP4.
Enjoy!

forget everything else, ffdshow rocks

I've been using this for donkeys years now, it's never caused any problems. I do a crap load of video encoding and again, never had any problems using FFDshow.
I've installed this on any Pc i've fixed (lots of 'em) and it doesn't cause and issues, AS LONG AS YOU REMOVE RUBBISH CODEC PACKS FIRST!!! If you don't, then you get conflicts and problems.

Directshow filters simply read the file and display what's in it, FFDshow is NOT a codec in the normal sense of Divx/Xvix codecs.

Be sure you download the version that's right for your CPU. I find the MMX version hardly ever works, probably cus MMX is old and most .. SSE is usually the way to go, unless your running an ancient system. You will find it won't even install if its the wrong version. Simply try another.

One computer of 3 accepted it Ok from the start. The rest 2 refused. It turned out to be the difference in Media Player Classic: 6.4.8.6 couldn't load FFv (ActiveX, icon in systray). 6.4.9.0 loaded it Ok.

Still the first computer runs now MP4 in many players (PowerDVD, WMP, InterVideo WinDVD), but some doesn't use FFv (Nero ShowTime, RealPlayer, QT) � perhaps, not allowed in the corresponding list (Options).

The rest 2 � only in MPClassic (don't know why).

Finally I can watch the videos I couldn't watch before and it make better .

Endless options, filters and effort to put mess among formats 2 the end.

WVista HB Edition user
tnx ;-)

When you have that, you don't need anything else.
It can enter in conflicts with any others Codecs you may have such codec packs, Nero etc...
However, you can configure every Codecs in the Interface of FFDShow, if a codec disturb you, you can simply by a few clicks disable it.

For Audio supporting its very nice, it can exploit your Sound Card, such mine is Creative X-Fi, can read at 32 Bits Audio and use your SPDIF.

For Video it recognize all, excepted for DVD.
DVD can be viewed but you can't exploit full features of DVD excepted the Audio, you can use all you need : SPDIF your internal decoding.
For X-Fi users, you can use SPDIF, your sound card will do the rest ;)

I can confirm that the latest build (revision 1201) is working under Windows Vista Ultimate.

One word: Fanfkntastic! :)

Using this on Vista in WMP11, it's amazing video quality of all file types it supports, I honestly haven't seen anything better.

For XP, it looks like total garbage, sorry. color isn't accurate at all, and plus, the quality isn't as sharp and rendering is more blocky than Vista.

With the right OS, its heavenly.

--tested with xvid Real Time with Bill Maher episodes, a 689mb mp4 copy of Pacquiao Vs Solis, and a 700mb 5.1 surround divx movie. All using a 43" Pioneer Plasma.