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We've compiled a list of 8 free and paid alternatives to FFDShow. The primary competitors include K-Lite Codec Pack, CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between FFDShow and LAVfilters, ffdshow tryouts, Xvid. Also you can look at other similar options here: Video and Movies Software.


K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools.

LAVfilters
Free Open Source

LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better...

ffdshow tryouts
Free Open Source

ffdshow tryouts is a DirectShow and Video for Windows codec with support for a wide range of audio...

Xvid
Free Open Source

Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative...

Do you download movies and get confused by all the different formats and codecs?

AC3Filter
Free Open Source

AC3Filter is a high quality free audio decoder and processor filter.

FFDShow is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.

FFDShow Platforms

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FFDShow Video and Screenshots

FFDShow Overview

FFDShow is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPLed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

The main developer was Milan Cutka. When he stopped updating the project in 2006, new maintainers opened the ffdshow-tryouts as a fork, where bugfixes, stability fixes, new features, and codec updates continue.

FFDShow Features

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FFDShow Categories

Video and Movies Software

FFDShow Tags

video-codecs decoding decoder codec video-encoding Discontinued

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