Installing the LAV decoders

THE LAV DECODERS

The LAV filters and decoders are an Open Source set of DirectShow filters that allow the playback of high quality video way beyond Microsoft's own Media Foundation solution.

They can be found here: https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases

Once you arrive at the final page and have the option to open one of the LAV configuration choose to open the LAV Video Configuration.

The LAV video settings dialog will appear. If this doesn’t happen you can open the LAV video dialog by simply searching for “LAV Video” in the start menu.

For people with Nvidia Video cards is is highly recommended to change to “Hardware Decoder to use:” dropdown to “NVIDIA CUVID”. This will give you the smoothest playback currently available.

Click Apply to accept the changes.

Now that the LAV filters are installed you should now have many more options for video playback when selecting Direct show in Whirligig.