Thema: LAV Filters / LAV CUVID Decoder

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LAV Splitter

    NEW: Support for HTTPS URLs
    NEW: Automatic selection of the highest quality variant in HLS streams
    Changed: Reverted back to the old ASF demuxer
    Changed: Backported ASF seeking improvements to the old ASF demuxer
    Fixed: ASS in AVI did not work in recent versions
    Fixed: RTP/RTSP did not work properly in 0.66

LAV Video

    NEW: Improved DVD subtitle and menu drawing with madVR (support for madVRs subtitle repositioning and lower latency)
    Changed: HEVC and 4K HWAccel is enabled by default
    Changed: Enabled DXVA2-CB Direct Mode with YV12 output on 8-bit sources
    Fixed: DVD menus could show a black screen instead of the menu in some situations

LAV Audio

    Fixed: Improved clipping behavior in badly mastered DTS-HD tracks

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LAV Splitter

    NEW: H.264 MVC 3D demuxing from MKV 3D, Blu-ray discs and Blu-ray SSIF files
    Fixed: The bitdepth of DTS-HD MA streams is reported properly in the stream information

LAV Video

    NEW: H.264 MVC 3D decoding (requires madVR 0.90 or newer)
    NEW: HEVC HDR streams export the HDR metadata to the video renderer (requires madVR 0.89.18 or newer)
    NEW: VP9 DXVA2 Hardware Acceleration
    NEW: Weston Three Field Deinterlacing filter (w3fdif)
    NEW: Ability to choose which GPU is used for DXVA2-CopyBack decoding
    Changed: Removed the CUVID HQ processing option, it is now automatically used when appropriate
    Fixed: CUVID would crash when playing certain HEVC files
    Fixed: Some pixel format conversions were much slower than expected
    Fixed: Pixel Format changes mid-stream were not re-negotiated with the renderer in all cases
    Fixed: Changes in the framerate due to software deinterlacing are properly reflected in the media type

LAV Audio

    Fixed: Increased PCM buffering to avoid stuttering with TrueHD on some audio devices

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LAV Splitter

    NEW: Support for reading metadata tags from MKV files (including the "3d-plane" MVC 3D tag from MakeMKV 1.9.10 and newer)
    Fixed: Improved handling of QuickTime codecs in MKV files
    Fixed: S302M audio streams with non-pcm content did not work anymore (requires an external decoder)

LAV Video

    Changed: Flags for BT.2020 are exported in DXVA2_ExtendedFormat (previously only reported to madVR, since the Windows SDK did not specify them)
    Changed: Prevent connections to the "AVI Decompressor" filter which could result in a broken image or crashes otherwise
    Fixed: Some progressive files could report the wrong FPS when software deinterlacing was turned on
    Fixed: MPEG-2 streams using "intra refresh" did not decode properly

LAV Audio

    Fixed: Decoding MPEG Audio streams from the Microsoft MPEG-1 Splitter could result in playback starting with an audible glitch

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LAV Splitter

    NEW: Support for extracting HDR metadata from YouTube HDR VP9 streams
    Fixed: Reading MKV files could crash when encountering tags for unknown or disabled streams

LAV Video

    NEW: Support for 10-bit UtVideo
    NEW: MagicYUV decoding support
    NEW: Experimental support for CineformHD decoding
    Fixed: Converting 12-bit 4:4:4 YCbCr to RGB32 would result in a garbled image
    Fixed: Decoding certain H.264 streams could drop a few frames at the start of playback

LAV Audio

    NEW: DTS Express (LBR) decoding support

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General

    Official LAV Filters builds require a SSE2 capable CPU

LAV Splitter

    Fixed: Certain MP4/MOV files didn't play or seek correctly in recent versions of LAV Splitter
    Fixed: HEVC in MP4 without PTS timestamp is being signaled appropriately
    Fixed: Closing RTSP streams did not properly call the TEARDOWN function

LAV Video

    NEW: CUVID support for VP9 8/10-bit and HEVC 10/12-bit decoding
    NEW: DXVA2 support for VP9 10-bit decoding
    Changed: Simplified the internal dataflow to reduce overhead and improve performance
    Changed: Enabled P010 output to EVR on Windows 10 Creators Update
    Fixed: Y416 output was incorrect (required by madVR 0.91.8 and newer)
    Fixed: Parsing H.264 MVC SEI NALs could fail in some cases
    Fixed: CUVID decoding could deinterlace progressive streams under certain circumstances, degrading the quality

LAV Audio

    Fixed: LATM AAC streams with Program Config Elements (PCE) (common in DVB-T2 broadcast) played with audible distortions
    Fixed: Very short PCM audio streams didn't play properly

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NEW: DXVA2-CopyBack uses D3D9Ex to allow headless operation
Changed: Increased the maximum number of decode threads to 32
Changed: Rebalanced the "Auto" thread strategy to use the exact number of available CPU cores, instead of 1.5x the cores
Fixed: Certain H264 streams could crash in 0.70 due to lack of buffer padding

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Fixed: DXVA2 decoding could fail in 0.70 after a dynamic media type change

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General

    LAV Filters now requires Windows Vista or newer, Windows XP is no longer supported

LAV Splitter

    NEW: Preliminary support for UHD Blu-ray parsing

LAV Video

    NEW: D3D11 hardware accelerated decoding (native mode with madVR, Copy-Back otherwise)
    Fixed: HDR metadata was not properly communicated to madVR in DXVA2-Native mode
    Fixed: Anamorphic WMV9/VC-1 videos were not being played back with the correct aspect ratio in all cases
    Fixed: Changing certain settings while playback was paused could result in a deadlock
    Fixed: Playing severly corrupted HEVC streams with hardware decoding could result in playback failing entirely, instead of skipping over the corruption

LAV Audio

    NEW: Basic support for AAC 960 streams (common in DVB radio streams)

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LAV Video

    Changed: Enabled CineformHD decoding by default, since the decoder has much improved
    Fixed: Decoding Matroska files with Linked Segments which used old x264 4:4:4 encodes could result in corruption

LAV Audio

    NEW: Blu-ray Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 decoding and bitstreaming support
    NEW: LAV Audio will fallback to audio decoding if bitstreaming is not supported by the audio renderer/hardware
    Fixed: DTS-HD HRA bitstreaming did not work properly with many A/V receivers
    Fixed: TrueHD bitstreaming could result in drop-outs on high bitrate TrueHD+Atmos streams

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LAV Splitter

    Changed: Export the description of cover art and attachments for use by players
    Fixed: Properly marked the packet allocator as providing read-only packets, to avoid crashes with in-place transform filters

LAV Video

    NEW: Support for AV1 decoding using libaom
    Changed: Enabled VP9 hardware acceleration by default
    Fixed: The aspect ratio of certain WMV/VC-1 files was not being properly respected in the WMV9 MFT decoder

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LAV Video:

Fixed: Container-provided color information will only overwrite video bitstream color information if its set and valid

LAV Audio:

Fixed: Certain multi-channel AAC streams did not decode in 0.73

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LAV Splitter

    Changed: Using GnuTLS for HTTPS and other TLS protocols, improving performance and compatibility with a lot of web streaming services (ie. YouTube Live Streams through youtube-dl, and more)
    Fixed: Keyframes in MP4 files were being reported with a slightly offset timestamp, resulting in slow keyframe seeking
    Fixed: Subtitles that stretch over chapter boundaries could be lost in Ordered Chapter MKV files
    Fixed: Fonts embedded in MKVs without a proper mimetype were not being imported (now it checks the file extensions for .ttf/.otf as well)

LAV Video

    NEW: Initial support for parsing HDR10+ (SMPTE ST 2094-40) metadata, and passing it to the video renderer
    NEW: Using the dav1d AV1 decoder for significantly improved AV1 decoding performance
    Changed: Re-enabled experimental hardware acceleration for H.264 MVC 3D decoding on Intel GPUs, disabled by default
    Changed: Updated Intel MediaSDK dispatchers to the latest Media SDK, fixing compatibility with newer runtimes in the Intel DCH drivers
    Changed: Improved support for additional UtVideo subtypes

LAV Audio

    Changed: Added an option to disable the PCM fallback when bitstreaming is requested
    Fixed: Further improvements to TrueHD Bitstreaming, resolving glitching on more new titles (particularly seamless branching titles)
    Fixed: Automatic fallback from bitstreaming to PCM could crash in some situations

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LAV Video

    Fixed: VP9 video could produce wrong timestamps, resulting in a black screen or other playback disruptions
    Fixed: Decoding VP9 from a non-keyframe (ie. after a seek, or badly cut file) would not always recover properly once a keyframe was encountered

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LAV Splitter

    NEW: Support for DASH streaming
    NEW: WebVTT support in Matroska/WebM
    Changed: Improved Font support from Matroska files
    Fixed: Large queue size limits could result in the wrong limit being applied
    Fixed: Resolved a memory leak in Matroska demuxing
    Fixed: Avoid selecting a stream with only a single video frame in MP4 files, which is often a cover art
    Fixed: Seeking in Matroska files with only audio cue points did not function
    Fixed: Seeking to the beginning of certain HLS streams did not work properly
    Fixed: Duration information in Matroska files is more reliable

LAV Video

    NEW: AV1 DXVA2/D3D11 hardware decoding support
    NEW: ProRes 4444 XQ support
    Faster: Updated dav1d decoder and improved thread configuration for significantly improved AV1 decoding speed
    Fixed: Added a workaround for VP9 hardware decoding on AMD video cards
    Fixed: H.264 streams exceeding the Level 5.1 DPB limit will no longer be hardware decoded
    Fixed: Improved handling of missing reference frames in H.264 streams with hardware decoding
    Fixed: HEVC streams encoding 8-bit video in a Main10 profile can be properly hardware decoded
    Deprecated: NVIDIA CUVID and Intel QuickSync have been deprecated for future removal/replacement

LAV Audio

    Fixed: Resolved an issue with glitching TrueHD bitstreaming on seamless-branching titles
    Fixed: Resolved a compatibility issue with some playback applications
    Deprecated: Support for the binary DTS decoder (dtsdecoderdll.dll) has been deprecated for future removal

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LAV Splitter

    Changed: AV1 files with no extradata will now generate a format header with stream information for decoders to use
    Fixed: Improved stream selection when multiple "default" video tracks are present

LAV Video

    Changed: Updated dav1d for significant improvements in AV1 10-bit decoding performance
    Changed: AV1 hardware decoding will more reliably engage when provided with additional stream information from the demuxer

LAV Audio

    Fixed: Opus decoding had audible artifacts in some files in 0.75

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