Last updated on 2014-07-03, by David Brooks

What is ffdshow

About FFDshow

FFdshow is a media decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e.g. encoded with DivX, Xvid, or FFmpeg MPEG-4) and AVC (H.264) formats, but it supports numerous other video and audio formats as well. It is free software released under the GPL license, runs on Windows, and is implemented as a DirectShow and VFW decoding filter.

ffdshow can be configured to display subtitles, to enable or disable various built-in codecs, to grab screenshots, to enable keyboard control, and to enhance movies with increased resolution, sharpness, and many other post-processing video filters. It has the ability to manipulate audio with effects like an equalizer, a Dolby decoder, reverb, Winamp DSP plugins, and more. Some of the postprocessing is borrowed from the MPlayer project and AviSynth filters.

FFDShow uses the libavcodec library and several other free, open source software packages to decode video in most common formats, such as:

*MPEG-4 Part 2 (including video encoded with Xvid, 3ivx, and all versions of DivX).

*Flash Video, H.263 and VP6 (used by sites such as YouTube).

*H.264/AVC, Theora, WMV as well as numerous others.

FFDShow also decodes audio, such as:
*MP3,
*AAC,
*Dolby AC3
*WMA
*FLAC
*Vorbis formats, among others

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Related Source
MP4, AVI, K-lite, MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, FLAC

External links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffdshow