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Old 24th March 2019, 01:38   #23401  |  Link
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Was schannel used before gnutls, but dropped due to onging problems with ffmpeg?

mbedtls serves me well in ffmpeg, but I suppose you got good reasons for gnutls.
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Old 25th March 2019, 22:29   #23402  |  Link
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Hi nevcariel, I'm trying to understand what the best road to bring madVR to Kodi, now that the DSPlayer fork seems to be dead for the foreseeable future.

While inquiring about the possibility of madVR as a binary add-on for Kodi, I got this answer from what used to be the main Kodi videoplayer coder.
At least from a theoretical point of view, it appears that having madVR as an "external" video renderer could be doable.

Which leads me to my question: if I understand things correctly, madVR "counts" on LAV Filters to pass on relevant info for proper HDR playback. Is this correct? Is this info coming from regular FFMPEG or is it your work. In the second case, do you see that part of your work moving upstream to FFMPEG main codebase (as Kodi is based on that too)?

If all of the above doesn't make sense, I'm sorry. Unfortunately I'm not a coder, I'm investigating this only to understand what would theoretically would be possible. Hoping that sooner or later an interested coder might look into it.
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Old 25th March 2019, 22:35   #23403  |  Link
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FFmpeg extracts most of the information already, it would just be a matter of bringing it into a format that madVR understands. This format was defined in collaboration between madshi and myself, and it has no place in FFmpeg. All that would have to be implemented in the adapter between Kodi and madVR.
That said, madVR is not only a video renderer, but a DirectShow one, as such it expects a lot of particular behavior in a particular way, often not very obvious, trying to get Kodi to act like a DirectShow source that pushes data to madVR might be rather prone to a lot of complexity, so its not a task I would take lightly, or enjoy personally, for that matter.

Unfortunately, the number of developers working on free or even open-source DirectShow stuff can probably be counted on one hand, and any attempts at attracting new developers to help continue players like MPC-HC has already proven rather fruitless, as is perhaps also evident by the death of DSPlayer itself. Regardless, good luck!
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Old 26th March 2019, 10:27   #23404  |  Link
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Unfortunately, the number of developers working on free or even open-source DirectShow stuff can probably be counted on one hand, and any attempts at attracting new developers to help continue players like MPC-HC has already proven rather fruitless, as is perhaps also evident by the death of DSPlayer itself. Regardless, good luck!
The current version of Dsplayer still works. The only thing that changes is the lack of any new features from the main Kodi branch, as well as some of the addons.

But, there are a lot of people, myself included, that only use Dsplayer for local file playback, so I'll let go of Dsplayer, with Lav and MadVR, when hell freezes over
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Old 26th March 2019, 12:56   #23405  |  Link
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That said, madVR is not only a video renderer, but a DirectShow one, as such it expects a lot of particular behavior in a particular way, often not very obvious, trying to get Kodi to act like a DirectShow source that pushes data to madVR might be rather prone to a lot of complexity, so its not a task I would take lightly, or enjoy personally, for that matter.
Yeah, even though (sadly) I'm not a coder, I understand it would be a complex task. I hope that the existing DSPlayer codebase could give hints on how to proceed but I'm not sure (as DSPlayer completely substitutes Kodi videoplayer with DirectShow).
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Unfortunately, the number of developers working on free or even open-source DirectShow stuff can probably be counted on one hand, and any attempts at attracting new developers to help continue players like MPC-HC has already proven rather fruitless, as is perhaps also evident by the death of DSPlayer itself. Regardless, good luck!
Thanks. More than offering $500 in order to make the project go on I cannot do. And I understand that's not the kind of money that could generate motivation for something like this. But thanks for the info you provided and thanks for your wish of good luck.
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Old 27th March 2019, 19:06   #23406  |  Link
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On a different subject, this time exclusively concerning LAV Filters, I hope you can help me understand something, nevcariel.

I'm experimenting in using Google Drive as a source for video content (paid tier, not the free one). I am seeing some "strange" behavior when using LAV Splitter. If I open videos from Kodi, they generate a limited number of accesses on opening the file (3 or 4 typically). If I open them from MPC-HC, using LAV, I see potentially many more "download events", as Google calls them. I have the impression that this might be linked with the number of chapters in a given mkv file, but I'm not sure. Does any of this ring any bell? Is LAV "calling" a file multiple times before opening it for playback?
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Old 27th March 2019, 23:08   #23407  |  Link
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Opening a file and reading its headers involves a number of seeks - in particular with MKV files (and also MP4 files), because they contain header information both in the beginning, and at the end of the file.
Over HTTP, a seek is a new request, so depending on the exact file structure, this could be a few requests. I have already optimized LAV to avoid seeks during straight playback, so that after it was opened and probed, it will play it straight through from start to finish in one request - however seek requests during startup cannot really be avoided without removing features.
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Old 28th March 2019, 11:37   #23408  |  Link
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Opening a file and reading its headers involves a number of seeks - in particular with MKV files (and also MP4 files), because they contain header information both in the beginning, and at the end of the file.
Over HTTP, a seek is a new request, so depending on the exact file structure, this could be a few requests. I have already optimized LAV to avoid seeks during straight playback, so that after it was opened and probed, it will play it straight through from start to finish in one request - however seek requests during startup cannot really be avoided without removing features.
Thanks for your reply. I was imagining something similar. The only thing I don't understand is why, apparently, Kodi's internal VideoPlayer is generating less requests. Could that have to do with (lack of) MKV branching support (editions.... how are the multiple versions of a movie inside a single file called). Maybe LAV needs to check for that and Kodi doesn't?
This is just "academic" curiosity, by the way. Your reply was thorough and I surely don't want LAV to remove features.
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Old 28th March 2019, 11:41   #23409  |  Link
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Maybe it reads the beginning and end of file in bigger chunks into the buffer and then seeks to the specific header elements from that buffer?
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Old 29th March 2019, 20:20   #23410  |  Link
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Can lav filters work on freebsd or is there a freebsd build? If not what is lacking in freebsd that means there can not be a lav filters for freebsd? Thank you.
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Old 29th March 2019, 20:21   #23411  |  Link
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LAV Filters is Windows-only. It uses key windows components to function, as such there will never be a build for anything but Windows. In fact its entire premise is being a DirectShow filter - no DirectShow on BSD, no LAV Filters.
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Old 8th April 2019, 15:27   #23412  |  Link
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I am testing LAV Filters support for DSF/DSD/DXD high resolution audio and have some issues,

In graph studio:
1. I add LAV Splitter Source
2. I specify a previously downloaded sound ".dsf" file from here: http://www.2l.no/hires/
3. I connect the newly exposed Audio pin on the source filter to LAV Audio Decoder.
4. I try to connect the LAV Audio Decoder to the "default directsound" audio renderer and get an error:

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[Window Title]
Connecting Pins

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VFW_E_UNSUPPORTED_AUDIO (0x8004025C)

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Cannot play back the audio stream: the audio format is not supported.
Connecting Pins (decimal -2147220900)
I tried with mixing enabled and disabled with no difference.
I suspect it may be the high bitrate not being supported by the audio driver, but I have hoped some down-mixing fallback would be in place for such cases.
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Old 8th April 2019, 15:47   #23413  |  Link
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LAV does not offer resampling, so whatever audio renderer you are using would need to cope with the DSD sampling rates. On that note, downsampling is not the only thing you should be doing. DSD is full of ultrasonic noise, and you absolutely should apply a strong low-pass filter to get it out of the signal before resampling it, otherwise it'll cause audible distortions.
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Old 8th April 2019, 17:23   #23414  |  Link
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nevcariel, is there a possibility in the future for LAV Filters to offer an option to cache completely a file on a local hard drive for playback? Kodi's VideoPlayer offers this but I'm not sure if this is something that, in the DirectShow world, would be handled by the source/splitter filter or if it needs to be handled by the player itself.
Hoping this has not been asked in the past. Thank you.
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Old 8th April 2019, 17:53   #23415  |  Link
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you can already do something like that with the queue settings it's using the ram for that.

queue memory is the file size and queue packets the maximum number of "frames".
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3D MVC problems with Intel

My setup: MPC-HC / MPC-BE (v1.5.3, build 4455), LAV Filters (0.73.1.30-git), MadVR. Intel NUC7i3BNK, Intel i3-7100U, Intel graphics driver 25.20.100.6618. Windows 10 Pro 1809.

3D MVC used to work a few week ago with the earlier Intel driver (v 6577). Now, when I start playback of an iso image, MPC-BE says: "Starting playback crashed". After 10 seconds or so playback starts without any audio. Changing playback position, and most any change, freezes playback completely. Closing the application thru task manager.

3D playback works nicely with Kodi. PowerDVD works but there is strange motion judder.

Is this LAV Filters problem or something else? Maybe caused by a Windows 10 change.
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you can already do something like that with the queue settings it's using the ram for that.

queue memory is the file size and queue packets the maximum number of "frames".
Yeah, I know about that and we've discussed this briefly here in the past weeks.

My problem is that nowadays RAM cannot necessarily be enough for current media (even with 32GB, which is currently, I believe, kind of the upper limit for "sane" installations). Summed to the fact that settings there are rather... opaque about how they actually impact cache size (I'm not sure they are limitless and I'm not sure how the two values interact among each other in order to define cache size, if there's clear documentation I must have missed it).

But mainly the first point. The second is more of a "if there was a "cache everything to disk as fast as possible" option everything would be easier for people with that kind of necessity".
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I don't have any plans for such a feature, sorry. Someone could write a file source filter that sits before LAV that does that, if one really wanted to.
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nowadays RAM cannot necessarily be enough for current media (even with 32GB).
Apart from Blu-rays I don't see any media that wouldn't fit in 32 GB of RAM and even then, using a reasonable buffer of 24 GB you could buffer from 1/4 to 1/2 of the movie. Are you saying your network is so bad that 24 GBs of buffer still would cause drops? If yes then I would advise on manually copying your file to local storage before playback, or just permanently moving your media storage to the playback device.
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settings there are rather... opaque about how they actually impact cache size (I'm not sure they are limitless and I'm not sure how the two values interact among each other in order to define cache size, if there's clear documentation I must have missed it).
The settings are not opaque at all as they were described in detail the last time we discussed it:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...30#post1865530
Even just the tooltips in LAV config are pretty self-explanatory.
Basically: set Maximum Queue Memory to the max RAM you want to use for buffering, then use the highest bitrate (and feature-length playtime) file you have to test while increasing Maximum Queue Packets until the player process uses up that amount of RAM.
I just did a test again: with a 25 Mbps UHD mkv, you need a ~20.000 paquet queue for a 2 GB buffer (which already holds 10 minutes of material), and it takes just 30 seconds of playback for MPC-HC to fill it up (from local HDD). Something like a 250.000 paquet queue should let you fill up a 24 GB buffer (leaving a bit of RAM for the other apps ).
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an option to cache completely a file on a local hard drive for playback?
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"cache everything to disk as fast as possible" option
It's not clear for me what you want.

Do you want an option to read a file from a local HDD and cache it in RAM? Or an option to read a stream from network and cache it in a local HDD?
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