How do I get VLC to use ffdshow?

[cowwoc]

Hi,

When I play live video using VLC I see a 2 second delay, but when I play it using ffdshow I see only 300ms delay. How do I get VLC to use ffdshow to play the video instead of the built-in codecs?

PS: Using ":tcp-caching=0 :udp-caching=0 :http-caching=0 :file-caching=0" reduces the delay to 1 second, but it's still a far cry from 300ms. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gili

[VLC_help]

How do I get VLC to use ffdshow to play the video instead of the built-in codecs?

You cannot. VLC doesn't support DirectShow or VfW codecs.

[cowwoc]

Alternatively, how do I decrease the playback latency? One second seems a bit excessive.

Gili

[VLC_help]

if setting caching to 0 doesn't help, I don't know any other way.