Ffdshow

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

ffdshow is an open-source unmaintained codec library that is mainly used for decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e.g. encoded with DivX or Xvid) and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video formats, but it supports numerous other video and audio formats as well.

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