DirectShow

DirectShow is a component of Microsoft DirectX, available for Windows. It allows players that are designed to be DirectShow-aware to play files without knowing how to decode them, provided that the user has the necessary DirectShow codecs and filters installed in his system.

VfW codecs can also participate in a DirectShow filter graph, through a special filter that loads them.

DirectShow Filters

• Gabest's AVI Splitter
• Gabest's Matroska Splitter
• Haali Media Splitter
• OggDS
• VSFilter

DirectShow-aware players

• BSPlayer
• Media Player Classic
• Windows Media Player
• Zoom Player
• J. River Media Center

External links

• Wikipedia entry for DirectShow
• One of MC's users wrote an excellent DirectShow Playback Guide. Most of it applies to any DirectShow capable player.