Thema: LAV Filters / LAV CUVID Decoder

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Changes in 0.51.3:

LAV Splitter:
-Further improved H264 media type creation

LAV Audio:
-Fixed an issue with the initial media types causing graph building failures in some situations
-Fixed a bug with DVBViewer which caused a delay on channel changes

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ChangeLog:

LAV Splitter
- Improved IO performance on network sources
- Added an option to configure the maximum memory usage of the frame queues
- Support ALAC in MKV
- Support SRT subtitles in AVI
- Improved raw video support in combination with LAV Video

LAV Video
- Support for DVD Video decoding
- Slight GPU memory usage reduction with DXVA2 Native
- Fixed video corruption after seeks with VP3/Theora
- Fixed decoding of "old" H.264 4:4:4 lossless files
- More stricter handling of output pixel formats, only enabled formats are allowed for output
- QuickSync: Improved compatibility with new driver series
- Improved support for VC-1 with the SageTV MpegDemux

LAV Audio
- Fixed a few issues with audio mixing
  - Some channels would occasionally be mixed twice, causing incorrect audio levels
  - Downmixing 8ch to stereo could crash on some systems
  - Increased maximum LFE coefficient to 3.0 and fixed scale to be consistent with surround/center coefficients
  - Added downmixing to Mono
  - Clipping protection is no longer reset on seeks
- Added support for Opus
- Fixed excessive memory allocations when decoding MPEG4-ALS

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ChangeLog:

LAV Splitter
- Added support for reading image files (tiff, png, jpeg, tga, bmp)
- Support for MPEG-4 ASP in MPEG-TS
- Support for reading metadata using the IAMMediaContent interface
- Fixed Aspect Ratio on some wmv/asf files

LAV Video
- Fixed a crash in the WMV9 DMO decoder on Windows 8
- DVD improvements
  - Subtitles are properly cleared from the screen, and won't be shown forever on some discs
  - Improved subtitle/menu positioning on some PAL discs
  - Improved handling of still frame DVD menus
  - Fixed a deadlock that caused the player to freeze in some DVD menus
  - Improved quality of blending subtitles/menus
- QuickSync improvements
  - Support using QuickSync in Fullscreen Exclusive mode (ie. in WMC)
  - Improved fallback to software decoding if QuickSync is not available
  - Support for DVD decoding
- Added support for Avid DV
- Properly indicate progressive video when YADIF deinterlacing is activated

LAV Audio
- Added proper DirectShow types and config options for AMR-NB, Nellymoser and various (AD)PCM variants

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ChangeLog:

LAV Video

- Fixed initial media type when YADIF is active
- Fixed an image corruption issue with DVD playback
- Improved handling of DVD menus on some discs
- Reduced decode latency with CUVID/DXVA2-CB on DVDs for smoother playback in some situations
- Added an option to toggle HW decoding for DVDs

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ChangeLog:

LAV Video

- Fixed DVD menu still frames with DXVA2 Copy Back
- Fixed Live TV playback with QuickSync

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ChangeLog:

LAV Splitter

- Subtitle selection in "Default" mode now properly takes the "Default Track" flag into account
- Fixed an issue that could cause graph flush events to be send out of sync

LAV Video

- The DXVA2 Native decoder can now properly detect hardware support for video resolutions
  - Allows 4K DXVA2 decoding on NVIDIA
- New options to control which resolutions are being handled by the hardware decoder (SD, HD and 4K/UHD)
- Added support for DVD menu overlays and DVD subtitles with DXVA2 Native
- Improved DXVA2 Native support with madVR
- Fixed a freeze when playing corrupted H.264 streams in DXVA2 Native
- Fixed a few rare DVD menu issues when using the QuickSync decoder

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ChangeLog:

LAV Splitter

- Improved seeking in MP4 files created by Windows Live Movie Maker

LAV Video

- Improved H.264 DXVA on recent Intel GPUs (Sandy/Ivy Bridge and newer Atoms)
   - Fixed corruption with high number of reference frames ( > 11 )
   - Fixed corruption in MBAFF interlaced content
- Fixed an issue that caused DVD menus/subtitles to stop working in DXVA2 Native mode in some situations

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ChangeLog:

General

- All Filters now have an optional tray icon which can open the property sheet when clicked (disabled by default)

LAV Splitter

- Improved FPS detection for interlaced H.264 streams in Matroska
- Fixed H.264 in Ogg and PMP
- Fixed seeking in RMVB files with AAC audio
- Improved support for AAC in MPEG-TS (especially in ISDB-T)
- Fixed Key-Frame seeking for AVI and added support for MP4

LAV Video

- Improved handling of raw RGB video with LAV Splitter (Video was upside-down in some cases)
- Improved support for the Overlay Mixer renderer
- Fixed decoding of non-mod16 video with CUVID
- Fixed DXVA2 decoding of H.264 MBAFF content with >= 16px cropping
- Support for fade in/out animations in DVD subtitles
- Fixed DVD menu overlays showing too early on some discs
- Fixed forced DVD subtitles being stuck on the screen until the next subtitle line
- Improved playback of MPEG-1 in MKV with Haali Splitter

LAV Audio

- Fixed 6.1 to 7.1 upmixing when the standard channel layout option is turned off
- Dithering when converting audio to 16-bit Integer
- Fallback to DTS "Core" bitstreaming if DTS-HD fails

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ChangeLog:

General

- Clicking the Tray Icon with a Property Page already active brings it back to the front

LAV Splitter

- Added an option to disable quality-based audio stream selection (selects the first stream matching the language preferences)
- Removed Bitrate from audio quality criterias, because its too unreliable at this point.

LAV Video

- Fixed YADIF deinterlacing (broken after a ffmpeg update on 0.55)

LAV Audio

- Switched to Triangular Dithering for 16-bit Integer conversions

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ChangeLog:

LAV Splitter

- Improved support for MP4-style H.264 in AVI
- Further improvements for AAC in MPEG-TS
- Small improvements to handling Blu-rays with odd stream configurations
- Improved handling of Ogg Vorbis streams

LAV Video

- Basic support for playing DVDs in different playback rates
- Fixed DXVA2 resource cleanup which may have caused a crash in some situations with DXVA2-Native
- Fixed A/V Sync when using the WMV9 DMO decoder (especially noticable after seeking)

LAV Audio

- Improved AC3 decoding quality (thanks to madshi for the patch in ffmpeg)

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Changes in LAV Filters 0.55.3:

* LAV Splitter

- Improved handling of Annex B H.264 in many containers
- Improved support for external source filters without seeking ability (live sources)
- Fixed duration in some MP4/MOV files
- Fixed stream program assignment for some MPEG-TS files (resulted in some streams not visible)

* LAV Video

- Added support for TSCC2
- Fixed a crash when playing certain H.264 files with QuickSync or CUVID

Download : https://code.google.com/p/lavfilters/downloads/list

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Whats new: >>

General

- Major ffmpeg update, the DLLs have had their version number increased

LAV Splitter

- Support for Matroska Ordered Chaptes / Segment Linking
- Improved support for parsing language tags from OGM files
- Small performance improvements by avoiding copying the stream data in memory needlessly
- Improved duration calculation for MP3 files

LAV Video

- Performance improvements for single-threaded decoders and YADIF (up to 20% in some situations)

Download : https://code.google.com/p/lavfilters/downloads/list

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Whats new: >>

LAV Splitter

- Fixed various crashes with ordered chapter MKVs
- Fixed a crash when playing an MKV with a disabled subtitle track
- Fixed switching between video streams with different codecs (ie. H264 -> MPEG2)

LAV Video

- Fixed a crash on close with DXVA2 Native
- Re-tuned YADIF for smooth playback instead of benchmarking

Download : https://code.google.com/p/lavfilters/downloads/list

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Whats new: >>

LAV Splitter

- Emit the EC_LENGTH_CHANGED event when the edition is changed, to help players update their playback duration

LAV Video

- dxva2: fixed corruption/dropped frames after seeking in interlaced MPEG-2/VC-1 streams
- dxva2: fixed corruption after seeking in interlaced H.264 on AMD GPUs
- dxva2: fixed decoding of H.264 on AMD UVD/UVD+ GPUs (HD 2xxx/3xxx Series)
- dxva2: disabled wmv3 decoding on AMD UVD/UVD+ GPUs (until it can be fixed)
- Fixed colorspace used for YUV Fraps to always be BT.709
- Added support for MPEG-4 Video with the BLZ0 FourCC (used in older Blizzard games)

Download : https://code.google.com/p/lavfilters/downloads/list

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Whats new: >>

LAV Splitter
- Added a Popup Menu to the Tray Icon which allows Stream, Edition and Chapter switching
- Improved stream selection in files with multiple video streams
- Improved performance when opening MKVs with linked segments
- Fixed playback of MKVs with Segment Linking and Vorbis Audio

LAV Video
- Enabled Hardware/GPU Deinterlacing when using the QuickSync decoder
- Support for JPEG2000 DCinema streams
- Support for RGB48 output, and high-quality dithering of RGB48 to RGB32
- Fixed a crash with DXVA2 Native on AMD GPUs in certain situations
- Improved detection of H.264 RGB streams, improves support with EVR
- Adjusted performance tuning for consistent performance in both playback and transcoding (in 0.56, transcoding could be slow)

LAV Audio
- Use the FLAC channel mask from metadata, fixes playback of FLAC files with non-standard channel layouts

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