Dolby-Prologic Filter for Media Player Classic ?

[jonathonsunshine]

Howdy yall, I recently got my self a 5.1 speaker system, (Logitech z5500 :) ) and have been messin around with various configurations. I have opted to bypass the the on-board dolby/dts decoding and use my sound card through the 6 analogue channels cause I got a kickass Creative soundcard with a 10 band equalizer.

Anyhoo, MPC Home Cinemas inbuilt dts and dolby decoders do a dandy job splitting the sound up but when i play 2 channell anything it just goes to front left and right. I can enable Pro-Logic on the speakers but I would really prefer it if I didn't have to switch it over all the time. Also, my sound card has Creative CMSS-3D which is basically not very good.

Is there a filter I can that will take 2 channels and decode them into 5.1 using the actual ProLogicII algorithims ? Also preferably, one that will let 5.1 go through untouched ?

[clsid]

Use Ac3Filter or ffdshow and configure it to
1) Output 5.1 channels
2) Process uncompressed audio

[jonathonsunshine]

I tried ffdshow, I found setting to use 5.1 speakers, but they didn't work, I could never get anything besides audio from front left and right.

AC3Filter at least decoded to all 5 channels, but it wasn't very good at all, dialogue was very much spread across the three front speakers.

Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong with ffdshow, I told it I had 5.1 speakers in the Mixer settings and also tried checking Dolby decoder, but I got nothing (at all) from the centre speaker and or the two rears.

2) Process uncompressed audio

I am not sure what you mean by this

[LoRd_MuldeR]

In ffdshow you must also enable the "Dolby Decoder" filter to get 5.1 audio from a Prologic-encoded stereo signal ;)

[Leak]

I am not sure what you mean by this
Codecs page > "Uncompressed" > select whatever format you need instead of "disabled"

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I am not sure what you mean by thisCodecs page > "Uncompressed" > select whatever format you need instead of "disabled"

And it means that ffdshow-audio can be used as a "post-processor" for other audio decoders...

[jonathonsunshine]

And it means that ffdshow-audio can be used as a "post-processor" for other audio decoders...

I have set it to Dolby Decode on and selected Uncompressed audio, it seems to work fine now, much better than AC3Filter.

What will it do when I when presented with 5.1 audio ? just let it go through untouched ?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

In the best case the "Dolby Decoder" will pass-through 5.1 audio untouched.
In the worst case it will discard the center/rear channels of 5.1 audio and then decode multi-channels from the right/left channel.

I didn't try it yet ;)

[jonathonsunshine]

worst case it will discard the center/rear channels of 5.1 audio and then decode multi-channels from the right/left channel.
I didn't try it yet ;)

Well it isn't doing that, I was worried that it would try to extrapolate virtual channels or something, mix the centre through left and right and the left and right through to the rears



thanks for all your help folks

[Sss_Ttt-26]

Try CyberLink Audio Effect from PowerDVD. It offers an accurate emulation of the Dolby Pro Logic II algorithm and other interesting enhancements.

The downside (at least in the x86 version of PowerDVD 6) is that the settings are reset every time you play a new file and you have to manually set the output to 6 channels.

I managed to use the filter from the PowerDVD 6 version (from oldversion.com/) on the MPC x86 version (the x64 version, from a newer version of PowerDVD, does not allow me to set output to multiple channels).

[huhn]

i wonder how much he cares 18 years later...

[DJ Bobo]

@ huhn
You think, he is the only one interested in an answer? This thread pops up whenever someone googles it. So it can help anyone googling this since 18 years!

[huhn]

yes i hope so if no one ask for 18 years!

[DJ Bobo]

@ Sss_Ttt-26
PowerDVD 6 is probably not compatible with Windows 11, so what about newer PowerDVD versions? Does TrueTheater Surround do the same thing?