philpw99 Direct show will use Microsoft's DirectShow tech to decode video and audio streams. The popular LAV filter here: https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases has lots of features and support hardware accelerated decoding. It works quite well for regular HD videos. The big problem is the 10bit VR videos. LAV and other directshow decoders work fine with 8bit videos, but not 10bit.