Download LAV Filters 0.75

Version 0.75 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. In addition, there are also media players that already have it on board, such as Media Player Classic – Home Cinema and VLC Media Player. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

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 Videos

• 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