Software Update: LAV Filters 0.57

Version 0.57 of the LAV Filters has been released. The LAV Filters are a collection of open source DirectShow filters that allow the most common formats of audio and video to be played in a media player of your choice. It is similar to the FFDShow filters, which seem to be losing popularity lately. For example, the K-Lite Codec Pack still offers the choice between the FFDShow and LAV Filters, while the Combined Community Codec Pack only offers the LAV Filters. In version 0.57 the following changes and improvements have been made:

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 Videos

• 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