[MPlayer-users] LAV Filters & mplayer

[Tomasz Borsukiewicz]

> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to use LAV Video Decoder with mplayer?
> 
> What in the world did make you think that you "need" to use this with
> mplayer?
> 
> "LAV Filters" is just ffmpeg made available to windows player via
> DirectShow, and mplayer already supports ffmpeg natively. I can't think
> of any good reason why you would want to go through a DirectShow
> indirection.
> 
> Why?

Hardware acceleration