New release of Media Player 6.4

[uneasy]

Hi, Gabest! Thank you for creating the best video player out there. No more QuickTime, RealAudio, PowerDVD bloatware!

But unfortunately there is only one last feature missing, and I still have to use WMP sometimes. This feature is full shell integration. If I select several files in explorer (or Total Commander, which I use) and select Open, MPC only plays one of those selected files, while WMP adds all of them to the playlist. Dragging and dropping files on MPC works fine, but this is very inconvenient. Could you add this feature if it's not too much hassle? If you do, I promise I would never use WMP again!

[slavickas]

@Gabest
is it possible to make mpc try at first lpayback qt files via dshow, and if it fails then try with qt?

[kilg0r3]

@ gabest

Is there anyway to use srt subtitles or any other DirectVobSub compatible subtitles with rv9 files? The problem is that, using smil, I can't get the subtitles on the overlay => my video card does not copy them to TV-Out. It would be really cool if mpc could do this for me and other matrox users.

[Valky]

Is that audio delay -80 suppose to work with rmvb-files too? Or is there any other way to edit this afterwards?

[htc10825]

A bug of the DirectVObSub filter(Subtitle Forum):
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56442

[zwahri]

Hi Gabest,

first of all: Thanks for creating the best Media Player for Windows out there

Now for my problem: Recently I discovered that you may set up default languages for DVD/OGM, but I never used that so I didn't have any problems with it
Now I'm using 'Girder' to remote control my PC and I'm watching quite a few OGMs and that's why I tried it out but couldn't get it to work _at all_. No default language/subtitle while loading OGM (should be japanese audio with english subs and no language/subtitle switching at all (I tried all possible keys after assigning shortcuts to them).
A friend of mine has the same problem on a different machine, and since I've searched the forum I found a similar thread and tried a player mentioned there: nwlNebula - subtitle switching works with it (via shortcut), so I'm guessing it's not the fault of OggDS

Here some facts about the involved systems & software:
WinXP Pro SP1 german
ATI Radeon 9100
DirectX 9.0a
Athlon XP
MPC 6.4.5.6 / tried 6.4.5.1 and above too - reconfigured all of them from scratch
OggDS 0.9.9.5
VSFilter 2.26

Win2k SP3 german
GF4 Graphics
DirectX 8.1
Dual Athlon XP
MPC 6.4.5.5
OggDS 0.9.9.5
Vobsub 2.23

[odedia]

I was just wondering if it would be at all possible to add to this player the ability to direct the AC3 Audio (if it is in 48hz) through the SPDIF of the Real Magic Hollywood Plus instead of the standard waveout?

This will be such a cool feature, as I don't seem to be able to play DivX files on any H+ player, neither Eugene's nor DivX plus.

Thanks!

Oded

[Herske]

The problem with selecting the audio renderer when two audio cards are installed is definitely fixed in 6.4.5.6. Thanks Gabest!

/herske

[systemloc]

WMP integrates with explorer somehow so that video is displayed in the web view of a file folder.

Is it possible to integrate MPC here instead?

Also, is it possible to use MPC as the default plugin to quicktime movies when viewed in a browser?

[Lobuz]

@Gabest
I don't want to be annoing, just wanted to ask if MPC will have ability to open files locked to write? I mean avi files while downloading but with header and index at the end. I asked it earlier but don't know if it's on todo list or not.

Regards
Lobuz

[Blight]

systemloc:
He'd have to release the player as an Active-X component... I don't think he'll do something like that.

Lobuz:
He'd have to rewrite the microsoft AVI File Source filter for that to work, that would be interesting, but probably quite a bit of a headache as there are a lot of "quirks" to the AVI format (all those MP3 hacks and so forth).

[gabest]

WRFan: I'm sorry, but on my config I can't get iviaudio.ax loaded instead of ac3filter, even if morgan is registered and the internal switcher is disabled (which I thought would be the problem). Graphedit is a viewer for the filter graph, you can dl it from the downloads.

tomji: Ok, I'll add these switches.

uneasy: If I select one or more file in explorer and choose to open them with wmp9, it also only loads one (the one I right clicked on). When multiple files are selected and launched then explorer runs the assocciated application for each file, for MPC this means it closes and opens each, replacing the previous files. But if multiple player instances are enabled, each file launches a new player of course. The most I can do now to allow more files in command line and all of them will end up on the playlist.

slavickas: Not really, the graph builder would catch and report the unconnected pins of the qt demuxer in most cases, and I'd need to disable that somehow with some workaround. But if you remove .mov from the quicktime category then dshow will try to open it by default.

kilg0r3: I've just noticed recently that with dx9 the video mirroring works even without overlay. Unfortunatelly both qt and rm renderers were done with dx7, but I'll just make a dx9 renderer sometime and those will hopefully output the subtitled picture to tv-out, just like "vmr9 (renderless)" does for dshow.

Valky: The audio switcher is only for dshow.

zwahri: What tracks are listed in the submenu of the ogm splitter? (play/filters/..) Can you select them there with the mouse?

odedia: Sorry, no idea how this could be done.

Herske: Yea, finally

systemloc: Web pages exactly identify which player they want to have embeded (with the activex control's clsid) and they communicate with it through a custom interface, different for all controls. Even if I could implement these things and turn mpc into an activex control somehow, I wouldn't want to hack the registry to replace the clsid->control assocciation for these players.

Lobuz: edonkey temp files are explicitly allowed when they are recognized as avi, just tell me which others you were thinking of.

Blight: Thanks for helping out!

[tomji]

thx a lot gabest, you own

[Lobuz]

I'm so sorry I didn't realized that from 6.4.5.0 version it's implemented:
"Opens incomplete AVIs (no seeking) and *.part files from your favorite p2p program when enough data is available."
I checked it few weeks ago and it didn't work and then was that Matroska madness.

Thank You very much for that great feature.

As another file formats could be ogm, mkv but the avi is good enough.

As a small improvement to that feature could be use of the data from "*.part.met" file to skip wholes in *.part and jump to another good fragment. Assuming that there is index at the end of avi. And it could be noticed at the seekbar by different color. The description of structure of part.met is floating somewhere at the network.

I tryied "AviPreview Console" from site and it's really amazing. It can recognize and extract data from the middle of broken file and write a good one. Maybe with little cooperation it could be used in MPC. but it's computationally expensive so that's just an idea.

Regards
Lobuz

[zwahri]

Originally posted by gabest
zwahri: What tracks are listed in the submenu of the ogm splitter? (play/filters/..) Can you select them there with the mouse?

Lets see...
Everything works fine so far, except that switching with MPC doesn't work. That means, of course, that I can switch subs/audio tracks with the mouse (I used that method until now), in every possible way that is ... (play/filters, OggDS Tray Icon, VsFilter TrayIcon).
I think maybe, just maybe it has got something to do with the german environment: In one of the later Versions of OggDS there was a feature introduced which enabled the display of streams in the language of the OS. So, for the 1st part of your question: The tracks are displayed as for example "Ton English" or "Ton Japanese" for audio - and "Untertitel English" or "Untertitel off" for subtitle streams (OggDS) - funny, the splitter is in german the OGM tags aren't.
To track down some possibilities I tried remuxing a OGM to MKV to check if switching works - it works . Audio switching works always, but subtitle switching only works with the built in subtitle filter and not with VSFilter.dll, which makes it impossible to use overlay mixer and forces "Video Mixing Renderer ? (Renderless)" instead, introducing a higher cpu usage of about 10% for me

[JimiK]

I remember that thread (think I started it )
AFAIR the problem is that you can access the streams in different ways. One way is with identifier strings like "Subtitle ...", where in the german version it's "Untertitel ...". Don't know why the german windows is the only one to cause this problem. Maybe NoWoL could tell Gabest what the problem is. Or maybe even Blight, because NoWoL posted in the inmatrix forum how to solve this. In the next version of ZoomPlayer the feature worked with Ctrl+A for audio and Ctrl+B for subtitles. Sorry Gabest, I don't want to use this thread to convince people of ZPlayer. In fact I use both, MPC and ZPlayer. You guys all do a great job. Thank you!
Best regards,
JimiK

[gabest]

Well, I look for subtitle tracks the only way, by searching "Subtitle ..." labels. I don't think I could handle this for all languages in case it gets translated, as it seems... The same applies for the sound.

[JimiK]

Here is what NoWoL posted in the inmatrix forum. Of course I have no idea what he meant

there is a problem with OggDS and your "cycle audio" shortcut with a german version of Windows. You must be using the names returned by OggDS (Sound is Ton in german) of the distinction doesn't work.

To make the distinction of video/sound/sub/chapters, use the "group" part of IAMStreamSelect->Info
0 = video
1 = sound
2 = sub
undefinied = chapters

Hope this can be helpful.
Best regards,
JimiK

[Blight]

Gabest:
The OGM filter returns a different group-id for Subs/Audio/etc... you can use that to identify instead of strings, more reliable.

[gabest]

They are different but doesn't seem to be the same always. The order of streams can change it (v,a,a,s - v,s,a,a - v,a,s,a all produce different group ids) or when the "output all streams" option is on every stream will be in a separate group.