The MainConcept Decoder Pack MPEG-1/2 for Windows® 32-bit and 64-bit platforms provides DirectShow filters for play back of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 compliant streams in the Windows Media Player or any DirectShow supporting application. It allows you to decode the common MPEG-1/2 formats, such as Video CD, Super Video CD, DVD, Blu-ray and various others, including HD, HDV and HDTV in highest quality using the renowned MainConcept audio, video and demuxer filters. The MPEG-1/2 Video Decoder is optimized for Multi-Core PCs and takes advantage of DXVA enabled graphics boards for hardware acceleration. For audio formats, the Decoder Pack MPEG-1/2 supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2.5, LPCM audio streams.

Supported Formats:

• VCD
• SVCD
• DVD
• Blu-ray Disc MPEG-2
• XDCAM HD
• MPEG-2 DVB
• MPEG-2 MicroMV
• MPEG-1/2 DVHS
• MPEG-2 HD DVD
• MPEG-2 HDV HD1 (720p)
• MPEG-2 HDV HD2 (1080i)
• MPEG-2 ATSC
• MPEG D10/IMX
• MPEG-2 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.

• Software-only MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-2) and MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-2) stream decoding.
• High Profile @ High Level decoding – supports all MPEG-2 profiles/levels, excluding scalability extensions.
• Full-resolution, full-quality decoding/playback (high precision arithmetic, IEEE 1180-1190 compliant IDCT, half-pel motion compensation).
• Optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology, dual core and SMP systems.
• Optimized for the most efficient CPU usage – takes advantage of MMX™, SSE™, SSE2™, and 3DNow® extensions when available.
• Software deinterlacing.
• High definition video decoding.
• Optional double precision IDCT.
• ATSC Streams Decoding – supports 18 ATSC formats.
• High performance – supports real-time high resolution video decoding (720x480 @ 30fps for NTSC, 720x576 @ 25fps for PAL and bit rate up to 15 Mbps) on Pentium II 500 MHz with a DirectX compatible video card that supports YUV overlay.
• DXVA 1.0 and 2.0 Hardware Acceleration support.
• Visual quality improving (HQ Upsample).
• Closed Captions decoding.

Audio:

• MPEG Layer-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-3)
• MPEG Layer-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-3)
• PCM and LPCM Audio (e.g. AES3 382 and AES3 311)

Stream Type:

• MPEG-2 Elementary Streams
• MPEG-2 PS/TS
• MP4
• MXF

Included Components:

• MPEG-1/2 Video Decoder Filter
• MPEG Audio Decoder Filter
• MPEG Demultiplexer Filter
• MXF 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.