The best options for MPEG-2 are the 'LAV Video Decoder', or the 'Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder'. Unfortunately this Microsoft decoder is only availble in some versions of Windows. It was freely included in Win7 and Vista. In more recent versions of Windows, you typically need to purchase Microsoft's DVD Player app to enable MPEG2. (Alternatively, some people have reported they sucessfully enabled MPEG2 in the 'Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder' on Windows 10 following the 32bit install instructions at https://matthill.eu/tutorials/install-windows-10-dvd-player-free/)
Lots of other decoders also work well. Many of these are included with other software you may have. Some examples include, the MainConcept decoder that comes with the Hauppauge WinTV software, or the Cyberlink decoder that comes PowerDVD, the ArcSoft decoder that comes with ArcSoft applications etc.
Ffdshow is an advanced directshow decoder and VFW codec for playing most video formats like AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV, MP4/M4V, WMV, WEBM, MPG, MPEG2, SVCD, DVD, AVC/H264. Ffdshow is an open source decoder (and encoder) based on FFmpeg. Ffdshow is used for decoding and encoding numerous video and audio codecs, (practically every decoder and encoder that FFmpeg supports). It runs on Microsoft Windows operating-systems and is implemented as a DirectShow decoding filter as well as VMW (Video for Windows) encoding. Ffdshow is an advanced directshow decoder and VFW codec for playing most video formats like AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV, MP4/M4V, WMV, WEBM, MPG, MPEG2, SVCD, DVD, AVC/H264.
Ffdshow Audio Decoder
Ffdshow Settings
The ffdshow decoder also works well. You can download the ffdshow decoder from http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/, making sure you enable MPEG2 during the install (since it's disabled by default)
Ffdshow Video Decoder
- Preferred Filter Tweaker for Windows 7/8.x/10 About Win7DSFilterTweaker. Windows 7 uses its own codecs for decoding several audio and video formats. Using third party DirectShow filters instead of the native filters is not possible without making difficult changes to the Windows Registry.
- Sep 20, 2012 ffdshow git-svn clone. Contribute to TheRyuu/ffdshow development by creating an account on GitHub.