LAV Splitter is a Souce Filter/Splitter required to demux the files into their separate elementary streams. LAV Audio and Video Decoder are powerful decoders with a focus on quality and performance, without any compromises. All LAV Filters are based on the FFmpeg multimedia libraries (licensed under GPLv2).

LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media. It is based on ffmpeg and libbluray and is aimed to offer an all-around solution to perfect playback of file-based Media as well as Blu-rays. LAV Splitter is a Souce Filter/Splitter required to demux the files into their separate elementary streams. LAV Audio and Video Decoder are powerful decoders with a focus on quality and performance, without any compromises.

Features

  • Full support for multiple video/audio/subtitle streams in one file (switching between streams natively supported)
  • Support for Matroska embedded fonts
  • "Smart" stream selection, based on preferred languages and quality
  • "Forced" Subtitle handling

What's New

LAV Splitter

  • Changed: When requesting a HTTP URL, the URL itself is send as a referrer to increase compatibility
  • Fixed: The priority of "Default" subtitle tracks in MKV files was wrong when a forced track was present

LAV Video

  • Changed: Improved color reporting for DVD menus/subtitles
  • Fixed: D3D11 surface clearing did not work properly on Intel GPUs