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newWang
13th February 2008, 16:34
Hi everyone,

I've been trying to figure out how to enable DVD playback with MPC + FFDSHOW.

After a search I found two solutions that have worked for people in the relatively distant past. I'm a bit confused about which is the correct way to do this.

1. "MPC options -> Overrides -> Add Filter ... (ffdshow MPEG4 decoder)
-> Add Media Type MEDIATYPE_DVD_ENCRYPTED_PACK"

This is from a post in 2004. I'm not sure if it's still good info.

2. "SUCCESS!

After turning off the mpeg2 filter in MPC and putting raw video on "all supported" in the ffdshow codec page, it now works. Thank you! Now I can use ffdshows powerful processing features to tweak the image."

This is from another post in 2004. It looks like this may have been something that worked only in this guy's case. Actual decoding is not done by ffdshow, only processing of the raw video output of some other mpeg2 decoder.

So what is the current thinking on using FFDSHOW with DVD's? I certainly would like to take advantage of FFDSHOW filters (and maybe Avisynth) for upscaling.

Regards,
newWang
clsid
13th February 2008, 17:06
In ffdshow video decoder options, on Codecs page, set MPEG2 to libmpeg2. Also enable the option at the bottom called "DVD decoding".
Leak
13th February 2008, 17:22
In ffdshow video decoder options, on Codecs page, set MPEG2 to libmpeg2. Also enable the option at the bottom called "DVD decoding".
...which will only be shown if you actually select the "MPEG2" row in the list above. (Just for the record...)

np: Pole - Round Two (Pole)
newWang
14th February 2008, 15:05
My build of FFDSHOW has, as a label to the said checkbox, "DVD Decoding (Not Working)." But that's a bit of a lie; It works! Thanks.
Leak
14th February 2008, 18:03
My build of FFDSHOW has, as a label to the said checkbox, "DVD Decoding (Not Working)." But that's a bit of a lie; It works! Thanks.
The "(Not Working)" is gone from recent builds, so I guess you're using beta 4a or something... :)

np: Grad_U - Nerimas I (CMYK)
newWang
19th February 2008, 21:43
That's weird. I could have sworn that I installed the latest as of last week.

Thanks everyone for your help.