wingetCollections
  • Auto
  • Search
  • Awesome Collections
  • Awesome Programs
  • My Favorite Collections
  • My Collections
  • Account / Settings
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy
  • About

© 2025 winget.ragerworks.com

Loading...
Install LAV Filters using Winget - wingetCollections
  1. Go back
  2. Packages
  3. LAV Filters
LAV Filters logo

LAV Filters Hendrik Leppkes

Use this command to install LAV Filters:
winget install --id=Nevcairiel.LAVFilters -e

LAV Filters is a set of DirectShow filters designed to enable playback of virtually any media format in DirectShow-based players. Built on the libavformat and libavcodec libraries from the ffmpeg project, LAV Filters provides extensive support for decoding and playing back video and audio files.

Key Features:

  • Extensive Format Support: Handles almost any video or audio format by leveraging ffmpeg's robust codec library.
  • High Performance: Optimized for smooth playback of high-resolution media content.
  • Open Source Integration: Built on proven, widely-used open-source libraries to ensure reliability and compatibility.
  • DirectShow Compatibility: Integrates seamlessly with DirectShow players, allowing users to enhance their existing media setups.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for content creators, IT professionals, and media enthusiasts who require reliable playback of diverse file formats. LAV Filters enables seamless integration into workflows, ensuring compatibility and performance across a wide range of media types. It can be installed via winget for easy setup.

README

LAV Filters - ffmpeg based DirectShow Splitter and Decoders

LAV Filters are a set of DirectShow filters based on the libavformat and libavcodec libraries from the ffmpeg project, which will allow you to play virtually any format in a DirectShow player.

The filters are still under development, so not every feature is finished, or every format supported.

Install

  • Unpack
  • Register (install_*.bat files) Registering requires administrative rights, and an elevated shell ("Run as Administrator")

Using it

By default, the splitter will register for all media formats that have been tested and found working at least partially. This currently includes (but is not limited to) MKV/WebM, AVI, MP4/MOV, TS/M2TS/MPG, FLV, OGG, BluRay (.bdmv and .mpls)

However, some other splitters register in a "bad" way and force all players to use them. The Haali Media Splitter is one of those, and to give priority to the LAVFSplitter you have to either uninstall Haali or rename its .ax file at least temporarily.

The Audio and Video Decoder will register with relatively high merit, which should make it the preferred decoder by default. Most players offer a way to choose the preferred decoder however.

Automatic Stream Selection

LAV Splitter offers different ways to pre-select streams when opening a file. The selection of video streams is not configurable, and LAV Splitter will quite simply pick the one with the best quality.

Audio stream selection offers some flexibility, specifically you can configure your preferred languages. The language configuration is straightforward. Just enter a list of 3-letter language codes (ISO 639-2), separated by comma or space.

For example: eng ger fre. This would try to select a stream matching one of these languages, in the order you specified them. First, check if an English track is present, and only if not, go to German, and after that, go to French.

If multiple audio tracks match one language, the choice is based on the quality. The primary attribute here is the number of channels, and after that is the codec used. PCM and lossless codecs have a higher priority than lossy codecs.

Subtitle selection offers the most flexibility. There are 4 distinct modes of subtitle selection.

No Subtitles

This mode is simple, by default subtitles will be off.

Only Forced Subtitles

This mode will only pre-select subtitles flagged with the "forced" flag. It'll also obey the language preferences, of course.

Default

The default mode will select subtitles matching your language preference. If there is no match, or you didn't configure languages, no subtitles will be activated. In addition, subtitles flagged "default" or "forced" will always be used.

Versions
0.80
0.79.2
0.79.1
0.78
0.77.2
0.77.1
0.77
0.76.1
0.76
0.75.1
show 1 more
Website
github.com
License
Last Updated
8/28/2025

Advanced

The advanced mode lets you write your own combinations of rules with a special syntax. It also allows selecting subtitles based on the audio language of the file.

The base syntax is simple, it always requires a pair of audio and subtitle language, separated by a colon, for example: eng:ger In this example, LAV Splitter would select German subtitles if English audio was found.

Instead of language codes, the advanced mode supports two special cases: * and off. When you specify * for a language code, it'll match everything. For example *:eng will activate English subtitles, independent of the audio language. The reverse is also possible: eng:* will activate any subtitles when the audio is English.

The "off" flag is only valid for the subtitle language, and it instructs LAV Splitter to turn the subtitles off. So "eng:off" means that when the audio is English, the subtitles will be deactivated.

Additionally to the syntax above, the following flags can be appended to the subtitle token separated by a pipe symbol (|):

  • d for default subtitles
  • f for forced subtitles
  • h for hearing impaired
  • n for normal streams (not default, forced, or impaired).

In addition, you can also check for the absence of flags by preceding the flags with a !. The advanced rules can be combined into a complete logic for subtitle selection by just appending them, separated with a comma or a space. The rules will always be parsed from left to right, the first match taking precedence.

Finally, the rules can match the name of a stream, with some limitations. Only single words can be matched, as spaces are a separator for the next token. A text match can be added to the end of the token with a @ sign.

Example: (basic flag usage)

  • *:*|f
    • On any audio language, load any subtitles that are flagged forced.

Example: (basic ruleset)

  • eng:eng|f eng:ger|f eng:off *:eng *:ger
    • If the audio is English, load an English or a German forced subtitle track, otherwise, turn subtitles off.
    • If the audio is not English, load English or German subtitles.

Example: (flag usage with negation)

  • jpn:ger|d!f
    • In the Japanese language, load German subtitles that have the default-flag but not together with forced-flag.
    • This is useful when you have files where the default and forced flags are set together.

Example: (advanced ruleset for files with multiple audio and subtitle-tracks)

  • jpn:ger|d!f jpn:ger|!f jpn:ger ger:ger|f ger:eng|f ger:*|f
    • On Japanese audio, try to load German full subs (default but not forced), then unforced, and at last any german subs if there are no unforced subs.
    • On German audio load only forced subs in the following order: German, English, any.

Example: (text match)

  • *:eng@Forced
    • On any audio, select english subtitle streams with "Forced" in the stream title.

Blu-ray Support

To play a BluRay, simply open the index.bdmv file in the BDMV folder on the BluRay disc. LAV Splitter will then automatically detect the longest track on the disc (usually the main movie), and start playing. Alternatively, you can also open a playlist file (*.mpls, located in BDMV/PLAYLIST), and LAV Splitter will then play that specific title.

In future versions, you'll be able to choose the title from within the player, as well.

Compiling

Compiling is pretty straightforward using VS2022 (included project files). Older versions of Visual Studio are not officially supported, but may still work.

It does, however, require that you build your own FFmpeg. FFmpeg is included as part of the repository in a submodule, pointing to a custom fork of FFmpeg with various patches for improved compatibility with LAV and DirectShow.

A script is provided to compile FFmpeg using MSYS2 with MINGW/GCC or MSVC.

The custom fork of FFmpeg can be found here: https://gitea.1f0.de/LAV/FFmpeg

libbluray is compiled with the MSVC project files, however, as with FFmpeg a custom version is used, which is also linked as a Git submodule.

You can get find the custom version of libbluray here: https://gitea.1f0.de/LAV/libbluray

Feedback

GitHub Project: https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters Doom9: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191