Software Update: LAV Filters 0.71

Version 0.71 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 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

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 Videos

• 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)