Software update: ffdshow 2004-03-19

Ffdshow is a DirectShow filter that can play DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files. The program uses the libav codec from the ffmpeg project for video decompression, mplayer’s postprocessing code for improved visual quality of low bitrate files, and is based on the original DirectShow filter from XviD. The development team recently released a new version with 2004-03-19 as the version designation. The following changelog is included:

• working on custom OSD format string
• small cleanup in config pages
• added freeverb audio filter
• fixed VFW installation on Win9x
• fixed resource leak
• fix in chroma plane size calculation
• PSNR calculation for Skal’s MPEG4 codec (copied from original codec sources)
• correct VFW configuration dialog captions
• working on VFW configuration dialog
• added Avisynth icon to makeAVIS
• modified show/hide behavior
• fixes in makeAVIS
• moved makeAVIS from into ffdshow
• updated vs.net projects
• reworked versions dialog
• show/hide filters
• added winxp manifest (thanks to Athos)
• updated libavcodec, DV video encoding, updated mingw makefiles
• updated vc6 project
• added support for skal’s mpeg4 encoding library fixed gcc compilation
• unified kbps and Kbps – now kbps