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Old 19th August 2007, 14:34   #1841  |  Link
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That is the thing, I do not want to use ffdshow for raw video as it will load for everything including videos where I do not want to use FFDShow. I want it to only load for the codecs I pick on the codec page but still have the ability to use it only for h264 material as I do not use ffdshow for h264. It's hard for me to explain so I will try to break down the scenario I am facing..

Playback software: Mediaportal (EVR) or MPC EVR (not custom presenter mode as I cannot get acceleration in it)
Source files: h264, WMV, and xvid in MKV all with subtitles, Live and recorded mpeg2 .ts from the tuner with no subtitles and DXVA2 acceleration with deinterlacing.

My options are
1) use VMR9 and rely on the haali splitter/playback program to load VSFilter if needed which works and not use FFDShow for subtitles at all.
2) use EVR (preferred) in which VSFilter refuses to load, no subtitles for h264 material as I am using CoreAVC and not FFDShow.
3) Set FFDShow to decode raw video making it always load thus breaking DXVA for my mpeg2 in both VMR9 and EVR.
4) Set FFDShow to decode h264 which is not an option as a good chunk of my source material is too tough for it to decode on my HTPC.


What I am looking to do is to either force ffdshow to load as an additional filter only for the h264 material which I can't figure out how to do within the limitations of the media playback programs I use, or find out if it is possible to have ffdshow load an external codec internally similar to how it loads xvid or WMV9 so that it wont interfere with my mpeg2 TV decoding and I could enable h264 on the ffdshow codec page. Thank you very much for the replies so far though, I realize it might not be a very common situation and appreciate the help!

Edit: Hmm after doing some messing with it I think I can get it working like I'm asking if I set raw video to all YUV so it ignores NV12. Hopefully it doesn't interfere with hardware deinterlaced but software decoded YUY2 files but I don't expect to run into that often I was under the impression loading it as a raw filter after the decoding was what was messing up vsfilter in EVR but I guess it's the subtitle pin connection that is doing it.

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Old 19th August 2007, 19:29   #1842  |  Link
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i can confirm this, debug says:
flac debug: decode STREAMINFO
flac debug: channels:8 samplerate:48000 bitspersamples:16
flac debug: STREAMINFO decoded
flac error: This stream uses too many audio channels
i guess 8channels are not implementet atm.
Thank you for the confirmation!

FWIW, I've tried another FLAC decoder and fed that decoder's output into ffdshow's raw audio filter (because that decoder's 8 channel output was not accepted by any other filter). There the same problem occurs. I'm not sure, it could be that the other decoder has the same problem. Or maybe ffdshow *generally* stumbles with 8 channels?
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Old 19th August 2007, 20:31   #1843  |  Link
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Vrobis decoders in ffdshow are still bad. Tremor was known to be bad, but the current Tremor, so called high accuracy mode, is still poor in quality. libavcodec is as bad as Tremor too.

The quality difference is so obvious that scoring 15/15 at abx against CoreVorbis is quite easy. I don't know why this is happening. To get decent quality, I'd have to recommend to disable Vorbis decoders in ffdshow and to use CoreVorbis (or maybe MPC's internal one).

Samples.
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/tmp/Vorbis_Test_Input.ogg
OggEnc v2.83 (libvorbis aoTuVr1), ~ 2sec, 43KiB

Decoded by:
- CoreVorbis
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/tmp/Vorbi...CoreVorbis.wav
- ffdshow (lavc)
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/tmp/Vorbis_Test_lavc.wav

tested ffdshow_beta3_rev1324_20070701_clsid.exe

edit: adding this.
- Decoded by foobar2000:
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/tmp/Vorbis_Test_fb2k.wav
no difference either use lavc/tremor or mpc internal vorbis decoder when playing.
make sure disable any audio filter before abx
anyone can comfirm this?

the lavc decoded sample u uploaded does show somekind of high frequency loss.
sounds like it was downsampled by ffdshow resampler or FIR filter.
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Old 19th August 2007, 21:12   #1844  |  Link
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There's a dead simple way to use coreavc for decoding and ffdshow for subtitles... Just set ffdshow to decode raw video
To Bad this won't Work for Vista Users!!!

See Thread before:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...11#post1032411

and

http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.ne...opic.php?t=429
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Old 19th August 2007, 23:56   #1845  |  Link
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Vista? Is that an OS?
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Old 20th August 2007, 01:11   #1846  |  Link
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no difference either use lavc/tremor or mpc internal vorbis decoder when playing.
make sure disable any audio filter before abx
anyone can comfirm this?

the lavc decoded sample u uploaded does show somekind of high frequency loss.
sounds like it was downsampled by ffdshow resampler or FIR filter.
Hi, thanks for your suggestion! Looks that way. While config'ing 'Output' I accidentally have ticked 'Mixer', a few pixel above, which caused this mess. My mistake. However I'll check this again when I have time.
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Old 21st August 2007, 16:48   #1847  |  Link
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I think the "DVD decoding (not working yet)" string in ffdshow should be updated. What exactly works and what works not with regard to DVD decoding by ffdshow? Is it only decryption that isn't supported?
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Old 21st August 2007, 20:58   #1848  |  Link
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i think i found a bug which hasn't been mentioned (searched but found nothing)

there's something wrong with the SPDIF setting:


works fine when i use this, i hear sound on my receiver:
ffdshow_rev1371_20070723_clsid.exe

doesn't work when i use the latest (i tried these), i don't hear sound on my receiver:
ffdshow_rev1425_20070817_xxl.exe
ffdshow_rev1431_20070821_clsid_sse_icl10.exe

everything else on the graph is kept the same of course (same player, same filters, exact same settings, same files, same drivers, etc....)

i'm not a programmer, so i have no idea what has changed since the rev1371 release and rev1431 release... but surely something HAS changed relating to AC3/DTS SPDIF
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Old 21st August 2007, 23:00   #1849  |  Link
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This might have been fixed at rev1432:
http://ffdshow-tryout.svn.sourceforg...yout/?view=log
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Old 23rd August 2007, 15:27   #1850  |  Link
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sarvatt, buy Zoom Player Pro and set up customized media profiles. That way you can force everything to be decoded and played exactly how you want.

I'm curious about the possibility of adding coreavc as an 'alternative' codec, if it's not complicated, but I really have no time to even look into it. Particularly since I typically use it for post-processing everything except HD.
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Old 24th August 2007, 02:19   #1851  |  Link
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sarvatt, buy Zoom Player Pro and set up customized media profiles. That way you can force everything to be decoded and played exactly how you want.

I'm curious about the possibility of adding coreavc as an 'alternative' codec, if it's not complicated, but I really have no time to even look into it. Particularly since I typically use it for post-processing everything except HD.
Thank you for the suggestion, I actually have purchased it and use it fine that way in the past for my laptop but I have alot of problems using it as an external video playback program inside mediaportal. I have just gone back to VMR9+vsfilter for now as I think the EVR implementation in mediaportal isn't ready for prime time because it would crash using FFDShow for subtitles loading from raw video sometimes (on coreavc h264 HD files only oddly enough) then work when the program was restarted.

SPDIF passthrough/AC3 output is still broken for me as well in 1437 on vista x86, 1413 is the last one that works. I don't have any builds between 1413 and 1425 to see which one broke it though, but 1425 was the first one that I noticed it.

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Old 25th August 2007, 19:10   #1852  |  Link
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SPDIF passthrough/AC3 output is still broken for me as well in 1437 on vista x86, 1413 is the last one that works. I don't have any builds between 1413 and 1425 to see which one broke it though, but 1425 was the first one that I noticed it.
I'm also seeing this problem with the latest builds.....
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Old 25th August 2007, 19:37   #1853  |  Link
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Read more:
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.ne...opic.php?t=478
Is rev 1424 working?Are there other related issues?
Can you please test:
http://rapidshare.com/files/51252887/ffdshow.rar.html

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Old 27th August 2007, 01:01   #1854  |  Link
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compiling svn 1439 using gcc-4.0.4 i get this error


Code:
TffDecoder.cpp: In member function 'void TffdshowDecVideo::ConnectCompatibleFilter()':
TffDecoder.cpp:623: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token
TffDecoder.cpp:623: error: '__uuidof' was not declared in this scope
TffDecoder.cpp: In member function 'void TffdshowDecVideo::DisconnectFromCompatibleFilter()':
TffDecoder.cpp:696: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token
TffDecoder.cpp:696: error: '__uuidof' was not declared in this scope
TffdshowVideoInputPin.cpp: In member function 'virtual long int TffdshowVideoInputPin::CheckMediaType(const CMediaType*)':
TffdshowVideoInputPin.cpp:180: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token
TffdshowVideoInputPin.cpp:180: error: '__uuidof' was not declared in this scope
make: *** [ffdshow_all.o] Error 1
anyone else getting problems ?
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Old 27th August 2007, 04:48   #1855  |  Link
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Read more:
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Is rev 1424 working?Are there other related issues?
Can you please test:
http://rapidshare.com/files/51252887/ffdshow.rar.html
folders #2 and #3 work!!! but #1 doesn't
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Old 27th August 2007, 06:33   #1856  |  Link
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Partialy reverted 1424:
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Index: TffdshowDecAudio.cpp
===================================================================
--- TffdshowDecAudio.cpp (revision 1438)
+++ TffdshowDecAudio.cpp (working copy)
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@
pDataOutW[2]=type;
pDataOutW[3]=WORD(size*16);
//pDataOutW[4] = 0x0b77; // AC3 syncword (removed because works only for DTS, not for DD)
- _swab((char*)buf,(char*)&pDataOutW[10],(int)(size*2-2));
+ _swab((char*)buf,(char*)&pDataOutW[4],(int)size);
}
else
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Old 29th August 2007, 07:38   #1857  |  Link
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I'd like to try out Albain's latest fixes for the SPDIF passthrough problem (rev 1440), but the latest build available to download is rev 1437. Could I ask clsid or xxl to kick off a nightly build when you have a free moment?
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Old 29th August 2007, 14:30   #1858  |  Link
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compiling svn 1439 using gcc-4.0.4 i get this error
Yes, __uuidof is microsoft specific. Rev 1443 is OK.
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Yes, __uuidof is microsoft specific. Rev 1443 is OK.
anyway around it ?
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Is it ok to install over an older version or should I uninstall before installing the newest version?
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