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Windows Essentials Codec Pack 4.0

New and improved features:

  • Added support for WebM files
  • Added AC-3 in MP4 support
  • Added a 64-bit version(s)
  • New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
  • DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
  • New color space converters:
    • Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
    • Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
    • High quality chroma upscaling
    • Added dithering to reduce "banding"
    • Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
    • RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
    • Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
    • Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
  • New RGB conversion options:
    • Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
    • YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
  • Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
    • Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
    • General code cleanup
    • SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
  • FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
  • FFDShowRemoteAPI:
    • Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
    • New command to disable FF/RW OSD
    • When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
    • Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
  • OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
  • Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
  • AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
  • "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
  • Better handling of DVD menus
  • Improved autocrop algorithm
  • Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
  • Added soft telecine detection
  • Added several new preset autoload conditions
  • libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
  • libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
  • Various updates to libavcodec
 

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(18 Jun 2012)

Windows Essentials Codec Pack 4.1

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Highlights of this release:
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
 
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