AVC Decoding via FFDSHOW Postprocessing Help

[fight2win]

i have a small question, when decoding x264 encoded avc video via ffdshow, what postprocessing settings should i use, or should i turn off postprocessing in ffdshow?

[Sharktooth]

none. AVC has inloop deblocking and doesnt need post processing.

[Daodan]

Than how do you explain that recoding a h264 source (to xvid for example) using constant quantizer, I get much smaller size (about 20%) if I put maximum postprocessing compared to no postprocessing? (and the source was very good quality by the way).

[Sharktooth]

coz postprocessing blurs the image and remove details (and we dont want that) thus rising the compressibility... while loop deblocking is applied only where the encoder chosen to apply it.

[Audionut]

Because the max postprocessing will be blurring the h264 source.

Hence better compressability.

edit: Sharktooth beat me.

[Daodan]

Well, I understood that. I just missunderstood Sharktooth's reply for "don't use postprocessing because it doesn't do anything", instead of "it will just make things worse". All clearer now.

[Sharktooth]

well, i didnt say "it doesnt do anything". i said it's not needed...

[gino25]

i have a little question about ffdshow, but i don't want to open a new discussion.

So.....

where can i get a recent ffdshow build? The latest that i finded is 12 dec 2005....


Thank you very much

[Sharktooth]

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm

[DigitalDivide]

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm

Just curious which version should I be using, the one above or this one? I'm never sure where to go to get the latest one for x264 playback.
http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Getting+ffdshow

[gino25]

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm

thank you shark!!!!!

Rimettiti presto mi raccomando!