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Why can we not play files through ffdshow?

What does VLC use to play the video?

It is such a shame the post processing quality is so very inferior when compared to ffdshow.

Just open any (any) divx or xvid in ffdshow+Bsplayer and then in VLC. The difference is plain. Using ffdshow postprocessing +sharpening is very much better.

Also the sound, on faint divx's when you turn up the sound to max it just isn't enough, but with BSPlayer I don't know what the difference is, maybe mixer or normalisation setting, it is just that bit louder that it's useable.

It is such a shame I prefer to use VLC but I cannot because of the quality.

Are there any work arounds?

Hello,

Did you try to enable postprocessing in VLC (in the Video menu). It uses ffmpeg post-processing algorithms, like ffdshow, so the quality should just be the same.

Yes setting 6.

It makes almost no difference on my system. But if I use ffdshow and the default mplayer postprocessing with accurate deblocking and use the sharpen option the results are much better.


I don't know that much about the technics, but isn't it so that if I want to play a video (say xvid) with a video player, then that video player can choose the codec to play it?

What prevents me from letting VLC decode my xvid using ffdshow, can someone tell me?