2011-05-13, 03:13
sansub Wrote:Just a quick question, forgive me if it is dump, I am a newbie when it comes to codec thing. Do we really need to install any external codec (ffdshow) for your XBMC version to work? The reason is, XBMC plays most of the videos fine with it's internal codec. Does it comes with ffdshow already integrated in it? and if yes, is there any way to improve it to play m2ts and mpeg2 videos (currently it plays with lots of horizontal blocks around the objects when the camera moves faster).
...that is the *whole* point of Tiben's work, to allow you to use *external* directshow filters instead of the default decoder (ffmpeg) built into XBMC which has shit playback quality in many cases. So, YES, you have to install any of the external codecs that you want Tiben's version to use, because ffdshow or any other directshow codecs are NOT included as part of XBMC. Note that ffmpeg is NOT ffdshow!
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The REAL Joe