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Topic: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

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

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

ffdshow

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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

> 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

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Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

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

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

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Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

Sad

8 Reply by brucethemoose (edited by brucethemoose 13-02-2018 20:38:11)

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Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

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.

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Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

Worth looking into.

Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

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".

11 Reply by brucethemoose (edited by brucethemoose 14-02-2018 12:11:08)

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Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

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

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

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Re: Limitations of Direct-Show based video players

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