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LAV Filters are a set of DirectShow filters based on the libavformat and libavco
dec libraries
from the ffmpeg project, which will allow you to play virtually any format in a
DirectShow player.
The filters are still under development, so not every feature is finished, or ev
ery format supported.
Install
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- Unpack
- Register (install_*.bat files)
Registering requires administrative rights.
On Vista/7 also make sure to start it in an elevated shell.
Using it
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By default the splitter will register for all media formats that have been
tested and found working at least partially.
This currently includes (but is not limited to)
MKV/WebM, AVI, MP4/MOV, TS/M2TS/MPG, FLV, OGG, BluRay (.bdmv and .mpls)
However, some other splitters register in a "bad" way and force all players
to use them. The Haali Media Splitter is one of those, and to give priority
to the LAVFSplitter you have to either uninstall Haali or rename its .ax file
at least temporarily.
The Audio and Video Decoder will register with a relatively high merit, which sh
ould make
it the preferred decoder by default. Most players offer a way to choose the pref
erred
decoder however.
Automatic Stream Selection
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LAV Splitter offers different ways to pre-select streams when opening a file.
The selection of video streams is not configurable, and LAV Splitter will quite
simply
pick the one with the best quality.
Audio stream selection offers some flexibility, specifically you can configure y
our preferred languages.
The language configuration is straight forward. Just enter a list of 3-letter la
nguage codes (ISO 639-2),
separated by comma or space.
For example: "eng ger fre". This would try to select a stream matching one of th
ese languages,
in the order you specified them. First check if an English track is present, and
only if not,
go to German, and after that, go to French.
If multiple audio tracks match one language, the choice is based on the quality.
The primary attribute here
is the number of channels, and after that the codec used. PCM and lossless codec
s have a higher priority
then lossy codecs.
Subtitle selection offers the most flexibility.