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If there is a different way to get ffdshow working in Kodi DSPlayer while still using LAV Splitter and LAV Video, I am all ears.

Sorry if I missed something or if it's not a suitable alternative for you, but if you may want to use the LAV filters installed on the system, you can try to use the old "Media rules and Filters configuration" method (in the Filter Management selector).

After that, you create a rule, for example:

Code:

File types mkv|mp4
Source filter: lavfsplitter
Splitter:  lavf_splitter
Video Filter: lavvideodec
Audio Filter: lavaudiodec
Subs Filter:xysubfilter (or the xysubfilter_internal to use the one bundled with dsplayer, it seems to work together)

With that rule, you play mkv and mp4 files with the LAV from the system.
You may try to add the filters you want to also be loaded as extra filters, or maybe directly in the video/audio above.

You can create other rules based on filenames etc.

The downside, is that you have to create a rule for any type of file you want to play.
Got a .mov file? It will only play if you create a rule (or append the extension on a rule you already made).


If the filter you want is not showing in the database, you can manually add it to the filtersconfig.xml, putting the name and the guid of the codec, following the pattern from the other filters.

The original file is in:

Code:

dsplayer_dir\system\players\dsplayer\filtersconfig.xml

To not lose the configs you edited on update, you can put a copy of the file on:

Code:

dsplayer_dir\portable_data\userdata\dsplayer\filtersconfig.xml

That is in portable usage (my case), you can follow similar structure on Kodi non-portable usage.


Those "media rules" were the only way we could use to configure dsplayer in the old days.
And in that time, it was only available directly editing the xml files for everything.
Only after a couple of years that aracnoz played around and added the options in the menu to make it easier, and then added the build-in codecs for ready to play installation.

This is why I'm so grateful to aracnoz.
(Btw, and the gratitude goes to the people from previous dsplayer, and the original xbmc/kodi aswell )