Software Update: LAV Filters 0.68

Version 0.68 of the LAV Filters has been released. The LAV Filters are a collection of open source DirectShow filters, which allow the most common formats of audio and video to be played in a media player of your choice. It is part of the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack, among others. There are also media players, such as Media Player Classic – Home Cinema and VLC Media Player, which already have it on board. Since version 0.66, the following changes and improvements have been made:

LAV Filters 0.68.0

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 Videos

• 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

LAV Filters 0.67.0

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 Videos

• 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