The MainConcept Decoder Pack H.264/AVC for Windows® 32-bit and 64-bit platforms is a powerful set of DirectShow filters that enables playback of H.264/AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10) compliant streams in the Windows Media Player or similar media players that support DirectShow. It allows decoding of the common H.264/AVC formats, such as AVCHD, Blu-ray, Sony PSP, Apple iPod and others, including H.264/AVC HDTV in highest quality using the renowned MainConcept audio, video and demuxer filters. The MainConcept Decoder Pack H.264/AVC supports MPEG audio, HE AAC v1 and HE AAC v2 as well as HDMV PCM for AVCHD and Blu-ray compliant streams.

Supported Formats:

• Blu-ray Disc H.264/AVC
• AVCHD
• H.264/AVC DVD
• Sony PSP
• Apple iPod
• H.264/AVC HDTV 720p
• H.264/AVC HDTV 1080i
• H.264/AVC QuickTime compliant
• Adobe Flash compliant F4V streams (H.264/AAC)
• DVB-S2
• H.264/AVC ISDBT

Note: If you want to evaluate MainCocept’s Decoder Packs, please download our free player application MainConcept ShowCase. It includes all the decoders in demo mode, adding a watermark to your video stream during playback and has an audio limitation of 30 seconds for some audio decoders.

• Fully compliant with ISO/IEC 14496-10 specification.
• Baseline, Main and High Profile support.
• 4:2:0 chroma format support
• Optimized for the most efficient CPU usage.
• Multicore/SMP/Hyper Threading support.
• CABAC/CAVLC.
• I, P and B slices.
• Weighted prediction.
• Field pictures.
• Symmetric multiprocessing (optimized for Hyper Threading processors and multi-CPU platforms).
• Color space converting (UYUY, YUY2, YV12, RGB32, RGB24, RGB565, RGB555).
• Chroma upsampling.
• Fields reordering.
• DXVA 1.0 and 2.0 Hardware Acceleration
• MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SS3 optimizations.

Audio:

• MPEG Layer-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-3)
• MPEG Layer-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-3)
• PCM Audio
• AAC Audio (MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-7) and MPEG-4 (ISO/IEC 14496-3 including Amd.1:2003 – HE AAC v1 and Amd.2:2004 – HE AAC v2))

Stream Type:

• H.264/AVC Elementary Streams
• Program Stream / Transport Stream
• MP4
• 3GP

Included Components:

• H.264/AVC Professional Video Decoder Filter
• MPEG Audio Decoder Filter
• AAC Decoder Filter
• MPEG Demultiplexer Filter
• MP4 Demultiplexer Filter
• MPEG Push Demultiplexer Filter
• Network Source Filter

High-Resolution Manuals:
In order to keep the file size reasonable, the MainConcept Decoder Packs include a user guide with low-resolution graphics only. However, we make high-resolution manuals available for free download separately below, in zipped Adobe® Acrobat® format (Currently only available in English).

English manual for MainConcept Decoder Packs
(739 KB)

Microsoft® Windows® 7, XP, Vista, 32-bit and Windows Vista, Windows 7 64-bit
(We recommend to install always the current Service Pack for the used operating system) // Microsoft® DirectX 9.0® is required.