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Hans Ohlo
24th February 2007, 19:16
hi,
after i was able to experience my windows xp mce 2005 crash and never recover i thought i give vista as my media center os a try.

i installed the haali splitter for mp4 and mkv and coreavc 1.1.0.5 (1.2 wont install under vista). ok in media center classic everything was fine. now i tried windows media player which crashed immediatly. so i installed powerdvd ultra and again in mpc everything worked as expected and wmp crashed (the message reads 'blabla stopped working...'). so i tried ffdshow which worked perfectly everywhere. but i did 1080p x264 encodes which needed more power and so use more than one cpu core for decoding (or the gpu, but this is not supported yet under vista). there was no way to get this to work in wmp or media center. so i tried the elecard streameye tools (trial version) which surprisingly worked also perfectly.

i do not get this, why the same decoders work in mpc, which was so configured to use the external filters and decoders, but not in wmp and mc under vista. i got everything to work perfectly under xp mce quiet easily but here...

another thing are ac3 decoders (i know wrong forum but it fits the topic). EVERY decoder i tried except ffdshow did not work (no crash but no audio either). man why does my nvidia decoder or the powerdvd decoder not work here. again everything works in mpc.

does vista not use the directshow filtergraph anymore or what is the source of this?

KoD
24th February 2007, 23:32
To be honest, I'd like to hear some explanations to your questions myself from someone who knows since I still haven't figured out if DirectShow is being deprecated in favour of Media Foundation (required for the content protection path) or not.

Hans Ohlo
25th February 2007, 00:43
this is getting weirder every second...

after some major filter registering/unregistering it got the powerdvd ac3 decoder working in wmp and mc. i used this tool [1] to set the nvidia decoder as mpeg2 decoder for dvd content and the powerdvd audio decoder for the dvd audio (ac3, dts not tested yet). instant crashed followed when starting a dvd. the same with the powerdvd video decoder. again the only one that worked is the elecard decoder (but due to trial not useable very long). i think in this aspect nvidia and cyberlink have some work to do (or microsoft?). but these crashes were very serious ones with blue screens and not only messages saying that the app stopped working.

now i am only waiting to get coreavc 1.2.5 with vista support so that i can watch my videos without the elecard decoder. i hope none of my friends ever ask me to install their media center pcs. that is the point in time where i think i will jump off roofs ;)

[1] http://mediacenterexpert.blogspot.com/2006/07/vista-media-center-decoder-utility.html

foxyshadis
25th February 2007, 01:00
Moving this to software players, since it's not encoding related.

BetaBoy
25th February 2007, 14:10
I'm gonna repost this in the CoreAVC thread, but as an FYI...

Last night we released a Vista compatible installer for v1.2... however because of the Vista mods it still does need some work on XP (go figure).

With the additional work we are still targeting this upcoming week for 1.3 with the new installer, offline activation and all th bug fixes... and from our beta testers and OEM partners... it looks as if v1.3 is the fastest, most stable, and bug free version to date.