SmoothVideo Project — Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (makkara) — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:38:06 +0000

Using potplayer with avisynth, it works good and i dont see any ads.

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (sparktank) — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 01:12:27 +0000

I've been curious about this too.
Thanks for the info. Too bad about potplayer.

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (brucethemoose) — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:10:46 +0000

Apparently there are ads baked into potplayer now too...

Yeah, that's out the window then.

Fortunately there's a big discussion about MPV making some kind of GUI "official" on their GitHub page.

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Chainik) — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:23:12 +0000

PotPlayer's built-in video filters are 8-bit only.

I asked once on their support forum if they could add 10-bit processing, the dev's answer was "no it's too complicated".

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Ironclad) — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:39:53 +0000

Worth looking into.

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (brucethemoose) — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:37:38 +0000

PotPlayer is one of those "old directshow players", and it doesn't necessarily need ffdshow video filter to run AviSynth.

It's been kinda finicky in the past though. Been a long time since I tested AviSynth/VapourSynth in it.

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Ironclad) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:17:47 +0000

Sad

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Chainik) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:02:31 +0000

surprisingly, this is THE ffdshow - the one that everyone use
and it's dead for years

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Ironclad) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:01:11 +0000

Good to know, maybe this fork has worked it out?
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/changelog.php

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Chainik) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:57:47 +0000

> Ffdshow raw video filter shows options for 10-bit output

this ONLY works for the ffdshow's internal h.264 video decoder
video filters doesn't work in 10-bit mode

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Ironclad) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:25:13 +0000

I don't think that's right. Ffdshow raw video filter shows options for 10-bit output, and according to older posts it was avisynth that limited svp to 8-bit in the past but both vapoursynth and avisynth+ support high bitdepth.

http://www.svp-team.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=632

I'll play around with an interframe2 script sometime to see if it works in theory.

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (dlr5668) — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 04:40:14 +0000

ffdshow

Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

null@example.com (Ironclad) — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 04:13:51 +0000

I was just wondering what are the current draw-backs of continuing to use these older video players now? I've been looking into a new monitor in the future so I could enjoy 10-bit content, but I didn't want to switch to mpv just yet. I understand that Avisynth was limited to 8-bit but since the switch to Avisynth+ shouldn't that have been resolved?
http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Avisynthplus_color_formats