Trying to locate a Nov 3, 2006 ver. ffdshow

[aberforthsgoat]

HI guys!

First, I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask my question. My apologies if it isn't - but here's the situation:

I run ffdshow on a p4/2.8 rig with a Radeon 9700 graphics card. I use it to run limitedsharpenfaster on DVDs and my TV card (an ATI 550).

I happen to have come upon a version of ffdshow last year that supports hardware deinterlacing in SageTV when running AVISynth scripts apparently using the NVIDIA decoder. Specifically, it's marked with Nov 3, 2006, 13:04:34. Every time I install in a more recent version, I lose hardware deinterlace and have to turn on one of ffdshow's deinterlacers, with a big drop off in quality. Needless to say, that has remained a pretty big incentive to stick with the version I have - my card seems to deinterlace better than anything ffdshow has to offer.

Unfortunately, I have even lost the installation files, and after googling for hours, I can't seem to locate this specific version. (My only way to regain this version of ffdshow has been Windows system restore!)

Can anyone help figure (a) what's going on and (b) possibly locate that version? Or, in fact, are there other, more recent versions out there that would also leave hardware deinterlacing intact?

Best,

Mike

[Koti]

(b) possibly locate that version?

ffdshow_rev494_20061103_clsid

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ffdshow-tryout/ffdshow_rev494_20061103_clsid.exe?modtime=1162588472&big_mirror=0

not exactly sure if thats it , I didnt install it and check build time :)

[Leak]

Or, in fact, are there other, more recent versions out there that would also leave hardware deinterlacing intact?
In theory it should work with any recent build if you go to the "Output" page, uncheck every colorspace but "NV12" and check "Set interlace flag in output media type" with "Method" set to "Bob".

(Disclaimer: I don't have an nVidia card, so YMMV...)

[Ryokurin]

If you don't mind me asking, how do you have it setup? I wouldn't mind trying it out to see if it did work on more recent builds.

[aberforthsgoat]

If you don't mind me asking, how do you have it setup? I wouldn't mind trying it out to see if it did work on more recent builds.

Hi guys!

I got hit upside the head with some serious overload at work and wasn't able to come back to check you responses. Thanks for the link - that *is* the right build, and I've saved it properly this time!

As for my settings, here's my AVISynth stuff:

#bicubicresize(1024,576)
MT("SPresso(limit=2, limitC=13, bias=100, biasC=100, RGmode=17, RGmodeC=17)")
MT("LimitedSharpenFaster(ss_x=1,ss_y=1,Smode=3,strength=100,overshoot=7)#mergeluma( removegrain(2,-1), 0.50 )")

[The bicubisresize is for DVDs in Zoom Player - for reasons I've never fathomed, that resize prior to the filters removes jaggies and *reduces* - sic - CPU load.]

Except for changing Raw Video to "all supported," ffdshow is stock. (I add crop settings to one station that has a garbled edge.)

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Finally, now that I have a backup, I'll try those settings on a more recent version of ffdshow and report back. One problem with this particular setup is that my AVISynth filters take a very long time to load. If I leave the box checked in ffdshow when I turn on SageTV, it takes about a minute and a half before I get a picture. Newer version of ffdshow don't do this - but I'll take a slower load time for hardware deinterlacing.

Best,

Mike

[aberforthsgoat]

In theory it should work with any recent build if you go to the "Output" page, uncheck every colorspace but "NV12" and check "Set interlace flag in output media type" with "Method" set to "Bob".

(Disclaimer: I don't have an nVidia card, so YMMV...)

Brilliant! It worked. And load times are waaaay faster with the newer version. Thanks a million!

BTW, I have an ATI card, I'm just using PureVideo.

Mike