ffdshow development #2

[IgorC]

can anybody upload ffdshow last build to somewhere like http://www.rapidshare.de/en/main.html ?

i´m trying to get it 3´d time from http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/xvid/ffdshow/

Palikrovol thanks (se lo agradesco) i´ve got it in less than 10 min

[708145]

Another mirror is here (http://www.iti.uni-stuttgart.de/~bergmats/video_mirror/videotools/).

the latest build will be up as soon as I have it. CD is sloow.

bis besser,
Tobias

[Palikrovol]

Originally posted by IgorC
can anybody upload ffdshow last build to somewhere like http://www.rapidshare.de/en/main.html ?

i´m trying to get it 3´d time from http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/xvid/ffdshow/

Done.

Get it here http://rapidshare.de/files-en/371342/ffdshow-20050117.exe.html

regards

[CruNcher]

OSD B-frame problems are gone :)
and jep playback is very smooth with recode .mp4 now :)

[moonman]

You can download it from my mirror too.
You find the link in this article:
http://svartling.hopto.org/index.php?q=node/view/421


I hope the download link works for those that not have a streamload account.

[Sharktooth]

mirrored here too: http://ebola.gamersrevolt.it/celticdruid/ffdshow/

[Sirber]

I will mirror it too, once my server come back from the sig fault :angry:

[Sharktooth]

Mine is quite stable and fast :)
EDIT: I PMed C_D and offered him fast host for his binaries...

[Neo Neko]

Just use this URL from now on and everything should be fine. http://celticdruid.no-ip.com.nyud.net:8090/xvid/

[drjimmy526]

After switching from the 1/5 to the 1/17 build, I am getting an exception error AFTER closing MPC or Zoom Player when playing a clip that utilizes VSFilter to display subs (I'm not using ffdshow subtitle renderer). Anyone experiencing this?

[Yong]

The latest build of ffdshow-20050117.exe have problem with avisynth filter,
it crash for me(MS visual C++ runtime error) if i enter avisynth command the avisynth filter tab...
This problem was not appear at SSE version of ffdshow-20050112.exe.

[yaz]

Originally posted by Sharktooth
I PMed C_D and offered him fast host for his binaries... sharky ! u're already on my 'bless-forever' list but now u're the winning candidate for the upmost position, definitely :-)(especially if u'd mirror the mencoder builds too :-)))
the bests
y

[bill_baroud]

just a little question, it had been some times since i updated ffdshow, and i found there is a "ff_rar.dll" included ....
so the question is : why ffdshow use rar (de)compression ? for compressed vobsub subtitle ?

[Sharktooth]

Originally posted by Neo Neko
Just use this URL from now on and everything should be fine. http://celticdruid.no-ip.com.nyud.net:8090/xvid/
Internal server error when trying to download...

@yaz: well, i will mirror everything but only if i'm able to grab it from C_D's web... :)

[esby]

I made up a mirror on my website too:

http://esby.free.fr/CelticDruid/


esby

[Sharktooth]

Ok, i just talked with C_D and i will host a fileserver with all the new stuff from C_D.
All downloads from the C_D's website will be redirected to the new fileserver and it will be updated every 24h.
When it's ready you will see a major speed improvement:)

[rushin_911]

hi,
I would like to report what seems to be a bug in ffdshow version 20050117 which i downloaded from http://www.iti.uni-stuttgart.de/~bergmats/video_mirror/videotools/
In Warpsharp when choosing aWarpsharp with the blurmode set on high quality 3-pass and all the other parameters left on default the video stream's color turns to gray scale regardless of what chroma mode is set

[Sirber]

Originally posted by Sirber
I will mirror it too, once my server come back from the sig fault :angry: Mirorred in my download section.

[QQ]

is it only me, or is SPP deblocking terribly slow? if i allow auto strength, then as soon as it hits "best" or "next to best" movie starts lagging badly - and all this on 3.0ghz P4! :(

[DeeGee]

Yes, unfortunetly SPP deblocking is very slow. I usually use it at force and on "level" 2 (on the slider). And on very high resolution files I need to put it off, because of the humongous cpu requirements.

[akupenguin]

Originally posted by QQ
is it only me, or is SPP deblocking terribly slow? if i allow auto strength, then as soon as it hits "best" or "next to best" movie starts lagging badly SPP is very slow at high strengths, but if it lags on auto then that's a bug. I don't know about ffdshow, but in MPlayer, "auto" means the highest setting your cpu can keep up with (continuously adjusted), and it will never lag unless the fastest setting is still too slow.

[Yong]

Originally posted by rushin_911
hi,
I would like to report what seems to be a bug in ffdshow version 20050117 which i downloaded from http://www.iti.uni-stuttgart.de/~bergmats/video_mirror/videotools/
In Warpsharp when choosing aWarpsharp with the blurmode set on high quality 3-pass and all the other parameters left on default the video stream's color turns to gray scale regardless of what chroma mode is set

This problem i already reported to milan, hope this bug will fix at next release.;)

[rushin_911]

Originally posted by Yong
This problem i already reported to milan, hope this bug will fix at next release.;)
oh ok thx :)

[Irwin]

Why in OSD "Frame Type" is no QPel or GMC info? - It's only I,P or B - In 2004 versions ffdshow osd showing this info correct.

[Elias]

When will the ffdshow filter contain an mp4 splitter?

[QQ]

does it do better post-processing than the other two methods? what settings should i use for the other two, and should i use them together, or not?

[yaz]

@elias
ffdshow is (simply speaking) a 'codec pack' w/postprocessing. afaik, it does not contain any splitter.
the bests
y

[Elias]

Originally posted by yaz
@elias
ffdshow is (simply speaking) a 'codec pack' w/postprocessing. afaik, it does not contain any splitter.
the bests
y I just want to decode mp4 files without the need of installing 3ivx, nero or any other application than ffdshow.

[kurt]

you can decode easily avc-files with celtic_druids latest ffdshow build (without nero). enable only h264 in codec-list.

http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/ffdshow

[Elias]

Originally posted by kurt
you can decode easily avc-files with celtic_druids latest ffdshow build (without nero). enable only h264 in codec-list.

http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/ffdshow It is enabled, but what about ASP? I'm talking full mp4 compatability, not just AVC.

[celtic_druid]

It can decode ASP to, but it won't work for either in an mp4 container by itself.

[Elias]

Originally posted by celtic_druid
It can decode ASP to, but it won't work for either in an mp4 container by itself. I know, that's why I'm wondering when the ffdshow will have a built in mp4 splitter, or any other way to decode mp4 ASP by itself.

[Tommy Carrot]

Originally posted by Elias
I know, that's why I'm wondering when the ffdshow will have a built in mp4 splitter
Probably never, it's not ffdshow's job, as it's an encoder/decoder filter, nothing more. In my opinion adding even more features would make it too complex to maintain by only 1 developer.

[Elias]

Originally posted by Tommy Carrot
Probably never, it's not ffdshow's task, it's an encoder/decoder filter, nothing more. In my opinion even more features would make it too complex to maintain by only 1 developer. So I guess that mp4 won't have a decent way to decode without Nero+ffdshow, ever?

[bond]

Elias, use search and read the mp4 faq :rolleyes:

[stephanV]

Originally posted by Elias
So I guess that mp4 won't have a decent way to decode without Nero+ffdshow, ever?

well, write your own mp4 splitter :p

[Neo Neko]

Originally posted by Tommy Carrot
Probably never, it's not ffdshow's job, as it's an encoder/decoder filter, nothing more. In my opinion adding even more features would make it too complex to maintain by only 1 developer.

Not to make light of what millan is doing. While he may be the only ffdshow developer much of the code ffdshow uses was not written by him. Alot of it came from FFMpeg. FFMpeg also can read and write a ton of formats. Millan started with the video part for the original ffdshow. Since then he has added much of the audio portion as well. The next logical step is to isolate the format reading/writing capabilities and wrap then in directshow as well.

I want to repeat it. FFDshow is awesome software. But most FFDshow updates have more to do with FFMPEG updates than they do with ffdshow code. ;) It is only a matter of time. But patience is still required.

[RadicalEd]

The issue keeps popping up again and I must have mentioned it a dozen times by now, but once more: an ffdshow implementing lavf would kick ass :D

[Inc]

I installed CelticDruids latest ffdshow compile and still there's the bug in MakeAvis "avis" decoding under vfw environments.

Also the filtering in ffdshow doesnt seem to be aplied in vfw environments even if set in ffdhow vfw configuration.

another point, sorry if that already has been an issue in here, ... I cant set the priority slider in ffdshow anymore and its multiple ffdshow filter in the ds chain configuration :(

Thanks in advance and thanks for the compiles! :)

[midiboy]

Hi everyone !

I don´t know how old this bug in ffdshow is, at least a few years :D

The workaround, to manually set a registry key to put the video decoder in "PAL" mode is a nuisance if opening files from harddisc (for DVD´s it can be automated with AnyDVD etc.)

Now, the reason why I am bringing this up here now is ...

This bug has been in each and every ffdshow version for years except seemingly in the "ffdshow-20050105.exe" version. All the later versions have the problem again.

When I tried the version from January 5th 2005, I thought ... wow, they finally got rid of this bug ! Unforunately, the next version that came out didn´t work without setting those reg keys anymore !

So something had been done right with this one version but seemingly got lost again later on !

It would really be wonderful if this very old bug could be solved once and for all !

Thank you !
Bye,
Alex

[therealjoeblow]

Originally posted by Yong
The latest build of ffdshow-20050117.exe have problem with avisynth filter,
it crash for me(MS visual C++ runtime error) if i enter avisynth command the avisynth filter tab...
This problem was not appear at SSE version of ffdshow-20050112.exe.

I'm having problems with avisynth support too. Can you point me to a download location for ffdshow-20050112.exe please? C_D's site and all others I've found only have ffdshow-20050105.exe, ffdshow-20050113.exe and ffdshow-20050117.exe, no 12th.

[kurt]

Originally posted by Yong
Special SSE version, download here (http://cutka.szm.sk/files/ffdshow-20050112.exe)
:) :) :)
....

you mean that?

[Sirber]

Isn't the latest automatic CPU extention detection?

[celtic_druid]

20050122 AVISynth is working fine, at least here. I made sure of it before I put it up.

[Yong]

It is nice to stick with latest build by Celtic druid.

Here is some part of replies by Milan:

1.
> I tested it on Pentium 4 2GHz and for 704x288 AVI
> SPP at quality level 2
> consumed about 80% of CPU and playback was smooth.
>
> Automatic quality control is quite broken now, try
> to disable it. And probably
> it won't never work correctly with SPP, because
> there is a huge difference is
> processing time when SPP disabled and enabled even
> with lowest quality.

2.
aWarpSharp is known problem, but since I don't have source code of that
filter
it's very hard for me to fix it.

3.
DVD playback is still my priority for now, together with fixing bugs.

BTW I was thinking about dropping support for some encoder libraries.
For
example x264 has its own VFW interface now and XviD encoder interface
in ffdshow
lacks a lot of features compared to official XviD. I still want to
support
interesting libraries which don't have their own Windows interface such
as
theora or mpeg2enc, but I simply don't have time to duplicate others
work. And
of course, libavcodec is the main target, fortunately libavcodec
development is
almost stalled :)

I tried with the latest build by C_D, Avisynth filter in ffdshow also work fine for me ;)

[rushin_911]

2.
aWarpSharp is known problem, but since I don't have source code of that
filter
it's very hard for me to fix it.


aWarpSharp in the October 2004 version works perfectly... The lack of support for x264 bframes forced me to update to the new version (for anyone who would ask why I don't just stick with it ;))

[Yong]

Originally posted by rushin_911
aWarpSharp in the October 2004 version works perfectly... The lack of support for x264 bframes forced me to update to the new version (for anyone who would ask why I don't just stick with it ;))
I don't know why the aWarpsharp is so important for you,
But i think the ffdshow original warpsharp function might be same as aWarpsharp.

By the way, old version of ffdshow is very buggy,
start from the 20041012 version, i sent over 19 of bug reports to Milan already,
I think there will be more than 30 bugs inside the old version of ffdshow waiting you to trigger it:D

[iron2000]

The 20041012 works best for me so far.

The newer versions cause laggy playback for some Xvid files like the Talses of Phantasia subbed anime.

I use post post-procrssing and sharpen.

[acidsex]

Is there any eta on when ffdshow will support 2 pass encoding for x264?

[Sharktooth]

use x.264vfw instead of ffdshow.
its much better and updated everyday (or so).