LAV CUVID Decoder - High Quality Hardware decoding for NVIDIA

[lucoia]

Hi, I'm on XP SP3 with GTX 560 TI and I use MPCHC+MadVR+CoreAVC+AC3filter and I'm 100% happy with it with all formats/codecs/resolutions/fps besides interlaced .ts, in fact I use PowerDVD just for the nice hardware deinterlacing feature.

So I was looking for a good Mpeg-TS filter with hardware interlace and I discover those LAV which looks interesting but the problem is if I enable the CUVID hardware, the video become weird with every setting tried, if I disabled it it just runs fine (but it's useless for me because it's still interlaced)

Any suggestion to make it work?

[golagoda]

Hi, I'm on XP SP3 with GTX 560 TI and I use MPCHC+MadVR+CoreAVC+AC3filter and I'm 100% happy with it with all formats/codecs/resolutions/fps besides interlaced .ts, in fact I use PowerDVD just for the nice hardware deinterlacing feature.

So I was looking for a good Mpeg-TS filter with hardware interlace and I discover those LAV which looks interesting but the problem is if I enable the CUVID hardware, the video become weird with every setting tried, if I disabled it it just runs fine (but it's useless for me because it's still interlaced)

Any suggestion to make it work?
Make sure you install LAVFilters, and not LAV Cuvid from this thread, LAV CUVID was merged into the Lav video decoder and gets updates there, unforunately nev hasn't edited this thread to say so or anything so a lot of people don't realise :(

Link to LAVFilters thread - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191

Of course the newest version may or may not fix this problem at all, but in the end this is still old.

EDIT: Looked in the changelog and in the latest 0.38 " Fixed a issue that caused MPC-HCs EVR-CP to produce wrong colors when using CUVID decoding" this may or may not have something to do with it, but good luck nonetheless and I hope it fixes it.

[mkanet]

Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but... Can someone recommend an extraordinarily super-high quality, high bitrate 1080p video clip demo that's downloadable?

[Thunderbolt8]

not downloadable, but for demo quality get the toy story 3 (animated) or the tree of life (life action) BDs

[mkanet]

Actually, I was hoping to find a demo clip with better picture quality and more detail than bluray movies; something like the below clip:

http://vimeo.com/29950141

not downloadable, but for demo quality get the toy story 3 (animated) or the tree of life (life action) BDs

[Redemption80]

That is noticeably worse quality than most BluRay movies due to compression, but the source is of such high quality it's easy to forgive it, would love to see a proper 1080p version of that though.

The best looking thing i have ever saw is the Baraka BluRay, don't know if you could legally download any clips from it though.

[mkanet]

I dont think that clip has as much quality loss as you might think due to compression. Dark scenes with lots of black and slow panning scenes dont need a whole lot of bandwidth; while capturing much more detail from a VERY good HD camera. Many bluray titles are still shot with film cameras; producing grainy video, even at a high bitrate. I know there are very high video quality bluray movies; but, was just curious if there are some downloadable clips people people may have come across with similar characteristics to the one I pointed out.

That is noticeably worse quality than most BluRay movies due to compression, but the source is of such high quality it's easy to forgive it, would love to see a proper 1080p version of that though.

The best looking thing i have ever saw is the Baraka BluRay, don't know if you could legally download any clips from it though.

[nm]

I dont think that clip has as much quality loss as you might think due to compression. Dark scenes with lots of black and slow panning scenes dont need a whole lot of bandwidth;

Is there a downloadable version of the video that you are watching? I agree with Redemption80 that the Flash 1080p video that plays on the Vimeo page is ruined by heavy compression.

There are short, uncompressed test clips available. See the Xiph collection for example: http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/ (scroll down for HD content).

[pankov]

nm,
how does one open a y4m file in a directshow player? What source filter/splitter should I use?

[Thunderbolt8]

The best looking thing i have ever saw is the Baraka BluRaythe baraka BD is actually DNR'ed, meaning it doesnt look as good as it could and should.

the tree of life really looks better.

[nm]

nm,
how does one open a y4m file in a directshow player? What source filter/splitter should I use?

No idea. Remux to raw AVI or encode losslessly with huffyuv/Ut/x264/...

[nevcairiel]

LAV Splitter should in theory understand y4m files, you just need to force it to be used.

[pankov]

nev,
I tried using LAV Splitter Source in Graph Studio but it refuses to load the file with an error "Cannot load specified file".
I also tried using File Source (Async.) and then connecting it's output pin to LAV Splitter but it refuses the connection.
Am I doing something wrong?
How do you suggest to "force it to be used"?

[stax76]

I used the 'Search this Thread' regarding the usage of this filter with DirectShowSource, there wasn't a clean answer if that is working and trying it resulted in following error:

DirectShowSource: couldn't open file D:\Video\Temp\The Fighter\title03.mkv:
Es wurden keine Filter zum Rendern der Eingangsdaten gefunden. (no filters found to render source data)
(D:\Video\Temp\The Fighter\title03 temp files\The Fighter_Source.avs, line 1)

Does the filter generally not work with DirectShowSource or is it a problem with my system?

[sneaker_ger]

I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work, but before you search any further, download and install "LAV Video" (included in the "LAV filters" package), as "LAV CUVID" has been discontinued and is now part of LAV Video.

[stax76]

I'll try 'LAV Video' then, thanks.

[nevcairiel]

I know that LAV Video works with DSS, because i tried it. Never tried with LAV CUVID.

[stax76]

Big thanks. :thanks:

[glc650]

Hi,

I've installed LAVFilters-0.42 on my laptop and desktop in hopes of improving playback of my interlaced video (JVC 1080i/60 MTS) but am getting mixed results.

computer specs:
laptop: Nvidia Quadro 1000M
desktop: Nvidia GeForce GT 520
both: Windows 7 x64, MPC-HomeCinema.1.5.2.3456.x64, LAVFilters-0.42

LAV settings:
defaults except Aggressive Deinterlacing and CUVID is selected and High-Quality Processing is unchecked.

As long as I don't select "High-Quality Processing" under the "Hardware Acceleration" section, my laptop plays back my interlaced video perfectly and the quality is noticely better (smoother, less artifacts) than the Windows 7 or internal MPC video decoders.

With the same LAV Video Decoder settings on my desktop, the video stutters and pauses (with the audio cutting in and out). In order to get it to playback well enough to watch, I have to either go back to using the Windows 7 or internal MPC decoders or change the algorithm from "Adaptive" to "None (Weave)" which results in playback quality on par with the Win 7 and MPC decoders.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

->g.

[nevcairiel]

The GT 520 is too slow, there is nothing you can do (except replace it)

[glc650]

The GT 520 is too slow, there is nothing you can do (except replace it)What would be the recommended replacement? I dont care about games, just video playback.

thanks,

->g.

[DragonQ]

Gt 430.

[glc650]

Gt 430.So something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133356

Would be that big of an improvement over my Gt 520?

Which series has enough horsepower to run with the "High-Quality Processing" option checked?

[Asmodian]

Yeah that is the lowest end card that can do 1080i60 CUDA decoding and deinterlacing with MadVR at full quality.

The improvement over the 520 is higher quality deinterlacing and full quality MadVR for 1080p60. The 520 is fine for 1080p24/25/30.

[joeydrunk]

I read somewhere that lav cuvid cant do software/hardware deinterlacing of commom cable encodes.- here:"LAV video decoder can't handle common American digital cable encodings with either software YADIF or hardware DXVA/EVR hardware deinterlacing (most video cards) because of this problem.": "program changes from 29.97 and 59.9401 while playing the exact same content, you are seeing bad metadata embedded in the signal. This is commonly referred to as the 29/59 frame rate switching issue or the 29/59 bug. Stuttering may be observed with the frame rate switches from 29.97 to 59.9401 or vice versa. This is due to the GPU changing the state of the de-interlacer/interlacer and falling behind."

Is this true and are you planning on fixing the issue? What is the best current way{software and hardware} to deinterlace these streams? Under known issues you state: "VC-1/MPEG4-ASP VFR content will most likely not play properly." Is this the same as above problem?

[mkanet]

Part of that was my post. You are taking these quotes out of context. First see if you even have the issue described.

I read somewhere that lav cuvid cant do software/hardware deinterlacing of commom cable encodes.- here:"LAV video decoder can't handle common American digital cable encodings with either software YADIF or hardware DXVA/EVR hardware deinterlacing (most video cards) because of this problem.": "program changes from 29.97 and 59.9401 while playing the exact same content, you are seeing bad metadata embedded in the signal. This is commonly referred to as the 29/59 frame rate switching issue or the 29/59 bug. Stuttering may be observed with the frame rate switches from 29.97 to 59.9401 or vice versa. This is due to the GPU changing the state of the de-interlacer/interlacer and falling behind."

Is this true and are you planning on fixing the issue? What is the best current way{software and hardware} to deinterlace these streams? Under known issues you state: "VC-1/MPEG4-ASP VFR content will most likely not play properly." Is this the same as above problem?

[joeydrunk]

Part of that was my post. You are taking these quotes out of context. First see if you even have the issue described.

I don't have the issue described, this stuff is my life and I like to learn as much as humanly possible. I tried not take it out of context thats why I copied everything you said word for word and put it in quotations. Please tell me where I am wromg, this is what I am trying to figure out. I am also going to buy a ceton tuner and would like to know exactly what I am getting into.

[SamuriHL]

I don't have the issue described, this stuff is my life and I like to learn as much as humanly possible. I tried not take it out of context thats why I copied everything you said word for word and put it in quotations. Please tell me where I am wromg, this is what I am trying to figure out. I am also going to buy a ceton tuner and would like to know exactly what I am getting into.

Windows Media Center, that's what. :) The ceton is a cablecard tuner if I'm not mistaken. As such the recordings *could* be protected depending on what channel you're recording. If it's protected you're not doing much with that recording outside of MC or an MC extender. For other recordings, I assume it records in standard WTV format. I've not had a lot of luck with that format and using open source to play them. It requires a lot of MS crap to be in the chain to split it properly and all that fun nonsense. Personally I just take them and convert them to MPG. I realize this doesn't answer your questions about deinterlacing, but, I wanted to make sure you were fully aware of what a ceton tuner brings to the table. Sorry for the OT nature of my post.

[joeydrunk]

Part of that was my post. You are taking these quotes out of context. First see if you even have the issue described.

Those two quotes are exactly the points I want to adress. The first quote written by you said lav dosn't work because of THIS problem. The "this" wich I have in capitals was a link you posted to the problem, wich is the second quote I adress. I didn't take the whole thing but what I have in qutorations is the main point of it.

[joeydrunk]

Windows Media Center, that's what. :) The ceton is a cablecard tuner if I'm not mistaken. As such the recordings *could* be protected depending on what channel you're recording. If it's protected you're not doing much with that recording outside of MC or an MC extender. For other recordings, I assume it records in standard WTV format. I've not had a lot of luck with that format and using open source to play them. It requires a lot of MS crap to be in the chain to split it properly and all that fun nonsense. Personally I just take them and convert them to MPG. I realize this doesn't answer your questions about deinterlacing, but, I wanted to make sure you were fully aware of what a ceton tuner brings to the table. Sorry for the OT nature of my post.

Right on, thanks. Good to know.

[SamuriHL]

Right on, thanks. Good to know.

NP. I've looked into them myself and opted for a TiVo Elite instead. The TiVo format being something easier to work with than WTV IMO. And for protected channels I just blast them out to my HD PVR's. Works very well. Also, since you'll be stuck in MC land for those recordings, your interlacing stuff will be handled by EVR. If you reencode it to MPG then you'll have to worry about what LAV Video is doing.

[mkanet]

The reason I said out of context is because I wasn't referring to just cablecards or windows media center necessarily. I don't have either and have that issue.

Those two quotes are exactly the points I want to adress. The first quote written by you said lav dosn't work because of THIS problem. The "this" wich I have in capitals was a link you posted to the problem, wich is the second quote I adress. I didn't take the whole thing but what I have in qutorations is the main point of it.

[mkanet]

Hi Joeydrunk, this is the link (http://www.cetoncorp.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/20/20/hbo-and-other-channels-rapid-framerate-changing---stuttering)specfic to ceton/Windows media center. Bottom line, you will have stutter on some premium TV channels; especially Comcast unless you use one of the display cards mentioned here (http://experts.windows.com/w/experts_wiki/71.aspx). SamuriHL is right, although, its pretty easy to replace the builtin mpeg2 decoder using the Media Center Decoder Utility (http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/04/media-center-decoder-utility-mcdu-finally-comes-to-windows-7.html), it will only playback the channels that don't have the copy protection flag set (Verizon FIOS doesnt enforce this flag, Comcast does). So, if you're a FIOS customer, just replace the MS DTV decoder with the Dscaler IVTC mpeg2 decoder... and you're on your way to very high quality TV playback at 24hz!

Honestly , I think the best way to do this is to just choose one of the video cards mentioned in the below link if that's an option. Although, they dont do 3/2 pulldown removal like dscaler IVTC does, it has been reported that playback is very smooth with these cards. I definitely would have bought an Nvidia GeForce GT 440 instead of a 545GT if I had access to the list of cards listed in this link (http://experts.windows.com/w/experts_wiki/71.aspx).

I don't have the issue described, this stuff is my life and I like to learn as much as humanly possible. I tried not take it out of context thats why I copied everything you said word for word and put it in quotations. Please tell me where I am wromg, this is what I am trying to figure out. I am also going to buy a ceton tuner and would like to know exactly what I am getting into.

[glc650]

I definitely would have bought an Nvidia GeForce GT 440 instead of a 545GT if I had access to the list of cards listed in this link.Why a 440 instead of 545?

[robpdotcom]

Windows Media Center, that's what. :) The ceton is a cablecard tuner if I'm not mistaken. As such the recordings *could* be protected depending on what channel you're recording. If it's protected you're not doing much with that recording outside of MC or an MC extender. For other recordings, I assume it records in standard WTV format. I've not had a lot of luck with that format and using open source to play them. It requires a lot of MS crap to be in the chain to split it properly and all that fun nonsense. Personally I just take them and convert them to MPG. I realize this doesn't answer your questions about deinterlacing, but, I wanted to make sure you were fully aware of what a ceton tuner brings to the table. Sorry for the OT nature of my post.

Whether or not the content is protected should depend on how your cable company flags the channels. If done properly, any Media Center recordings should be flagged the same as a TiVo recording - if you can't play it outside of MC, then you can't transfer it from a TiVo to a PC. So, you would be stuck playing them in MC, just as you would be stuck playing them on a TiVo.

As far as playing it with open source players, you just need to use LAV Splitter and it should be no problem. The only problem is live TV - for that it is best to use the Microsoft splitter.

I rarely watch anything live, so LAV Splitter is fine for me - I use Dscaler for telecined content, and LAV Video to decode everything else. I can deinterlace the video with yadif, madVR,... nothing gives me any problems.

I have the Ceton tuner and I love it. I use it combined with a rather inexpensive Hauppage tuner, letting the Hauppage tuner handle everything that I don't need a cable card for. I had TiVo for about 10 years, but I like MC just fine (better in some ways, not as good in others) - and it's free.

[SamuriHL]

Whether or not the content is protected should depend on how your cable company flags the channels. If done properly, any Media Center recordings should be flagged the same as a TiVo recording - if you can't play it outside of MC, then you can't transfer it from a TiVo to a PC. So, you would be stuck playing them in MC, just as you would be stuck playing them on a TiVo.

As far as playing it with open source players, you just need to use LAV Splitter and it should be no problem. The only problem is live TV - for that it is best to use the Microsoft splitter.

I rarely watch anything live, so LAV Splitter is fine for me - I use Dscaler for telecined content, and LAV Video to decode everything else. I can deinterlace the video with yadif, madVR,... nothing gives me any problems.

I have the Ceton tuner and I love it. I use it combined with a rather inexpensive Hauppage tuner, letting the Hauppage tuner handle everything that I don't need a cable card for. I had TiVo for about 10 years, but I like MC just fine (better in some ways, not as good in others) - and it's free.

I have a hauppauge 950q that I use for a few recordings in MC. I have some issues trying to play them with nothing but lav filters. It could just be how mc17 builds the graph. I haven't tried it in mpc-hc. Maybe I should experiment with that some more. With the TiVo if I have a protected channel, I can simply record it using one of my HD pvr's. It'd be far more difficult in my case to do that from a ceton tuner. They look awesome and I came really close to getting one, but in the end I do love my TiVo's. :)

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[spartan711]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-Cuda-LLVM-Compiler-GPU,14274.html

Could this be of any help nevcairiel?

If you want to get access to it, I can try going through my university...

[aufkrawall]

Can CUVID be used to decrese CPU load?
Even with it I can't play x264 lossless RGB smoothly since my Phenom II X4 is too slow for it. :o

[Mikey2]

LAV CUVID vs CoreAVC with NVidia SLI?

Since I have an over-clocked Quad-core CPU (Q6600 running at 3.6 GHz instead of the default of 2.4 and my FSB running at 400 MHz instead of 255...i.e. a 50% overclock) and a relatively weak set of NVidia graphic cards (2 8600GT cards running in SLI,) and since running the Video Decoding at in Software mode or hardware-mode makes no quality difference, I used to run LAV Decoder in software mode, thus freeing up my graphics cards to run madVR with the best upscaling etc and HW De-interlacing if needed.

However, I recently ran across a wonderful new AviSynth sharpener - "LSFMod" (Normal call format: "LSFMod(defaults="slow",ss_x=1.0,ss_y=1.0,strength=80)".) This sharpener is good enough to warrant HW upgrades; however, I cannot afford any right now. (It takes a lot of CPU processing power (even on my system.))

Thus in order to play-back without frame-drops I needed to free-up my CPU thus switch to HW Video decoding. However, I was having problems with LAV's CUVID [version .43 - the one integrated with the normal LAV Decoder.] But when running with CoreAVC it played back smoothly.

It took me a while to figure it out, but using GPU-Z I found that using CoreAVC it correctly split the Video Decoding on one of my SLI'd Video-cards and put most of the rendering work on the other GPU.

However, LAV CUVID, even in SLI, it put essentially all the work onto just one of my two graphics cards!

I'd like to go back to LAV (for many reasons, like most of us here, I love LAVFilters) but I cannot (at least in HW/CUVID mode) until this is fixed. [I]Is this a known issue? Is there something I could be doing in my setup differently?

Here are some GPU-Z screenshots, playing 720P "Kingdom of Heaven" with Avisynth's LSFMod on and MadVR set to its best upscaling (IMHO) (Softcubic 100/4-tap Spline.)

(The key parts to note are the "Video Engine Load" - that is the HW Decoding (it is completely 0 when using Software Decoding.) And the two fields above it ("GPU Load" and "Memory Controller Load" - those are the rendering loads - which cannot be helped when running a 1080P video (especially one up-scaled using MadVR...)) Notice on CoreAVC one GPU takes most of the Rendering Stuff and leaves the Decoding on the other card. But LAV CUVID throws both the decoding and the rendering on a single GPU and leaves the other card to essentially do nothing.)

LAV CUVID GPU loads
-----------------------

CUVID GPU (Video-card) #1

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s297/mikeyurkus/LAVCUVIDCard1.png

CUVID GPU (Video-card) #2

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s297/mikeyurkus/LAVCUVIDCard2.png

CoreAVC GPU loads
-----------------------


CoreAVC GPU (Video-card) #1

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s297/mikeyurkus/CoreAVCCard1.png


CoreAVC GPU (Video-card) #2

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s297/mikeyurkus/CoreAVCCard2.png

Thanks much in advance for your help!
MikeY

PS - Notice that the total percentages are much higher for CoreAVC - that is why most people agree that LAV is a better decoder and most people don't see this problem; however, the distribution of the processing over SLI is what is causing LAV to drop frames continuously while allowing CoreAVC to play without frame-drop for me.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Can CUVID be used to decrese CPU load?
Even with it I can't play x264 lossless RGB smoothly since my Phenom II X4 is too slow for it. :o At what resolutions and frame rate?

That said, as far as I'm aware no GPU supports AVC lossless anyway...

[Lincoln Burrows]

Folks,
I am dealing with 1080i, VC-1 encoding, converted to 60i from the BBC's original rate of 50i HDV. It's the 1st season of Torchwood converted to MKV using MAKEMKV by me.

However I am not sure what settings I must select here.

http://i.imgur.com/nqVeN.png

The default settings from this decoder are 50p/60p (Video), but I changed to 25p/30p (Film) as you can see. Is that correct? What about the rest?

Using MPC-HC it seems the video is playing fine, but the playback is smooth. It should be a little faster (you can notice something is not quite right), and I also have (in my case, I am using ffdshow Audio Decoder), audio sync problem sometimes. The codec is DTS-HD 5.1.

In my case, I am using a 8800 GTS 512 MB video card, and PC is Q9450, 2 GB RAM, Windows 7, in a 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

I saw once a few settings we must change in MPC-HC to watch 1080i videos, but I can't find them anymore.

[jmonier]

Note that you should be using the LAV Video Decoder which now has CUVID built in. The separate LAV CUVID decoder is outdated and is no longer being updated. That said, unless Video doesn't look good, it should be fine. Adaptive is the best interlacing method.

[Lincoln Burrows]

Note that you should be using the LAV Video Decoder which now has CUVID built in. The separate LAV CUVID decoder is outdated and is no longer being updated. That said, unless Video doesn't look good, it should be fine. Adaptive is the best interlacing method.Where can (we) find this "LAV Video Decoder"?

It should be noted that I am also using the codec-pack from this website:
http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

The Mega version.

And if I can't manage to make 1080i work with MPC, I can use Total MediaTheatre from Arcsoft (software) and the original Blu-ray folder. In this case, I never experienced any problems. But I rather use Matroska converted files most of the time, and stick with MPC-HC.

P.S.

OK, it seems I already have this LAV Video Decoder installed here. However, if I add this in MPC, I only get "Sonic Cinemaster Video Decoder 4.2" (and I can't change any settings in this one) in the list of filters used by this 1080i VC-1 file. And I don't get the "Using DXVA" message.

If I select "LAV CUVID Decoder" I can change settings and see the "Using DXVA" message.

That said, unless Video doesn't look good, it should be fine.And at least in this case, if you select 50/60p/Video you will make things a lot worse (and slower). 25/30p-Film is the best choice here, but like I said, it still doesn't feel right and I am having audio sync problems. And since it's working in TMT I guess it's MPC or decoder's fault.

[clsid]

Go to LAV Video settings and enable VC-1. It is disabled by default in LAV Video because it doesn't support interlaced video and is also slower than the Microsoft decoder. In CUVID it does support interlaced.

If another decoder still gets used by MPC, then either block that filter or give it a lower merit.

[Lincoln Burrows]

Go to LAV Video settings and enable VC-1. It is disabled by default in LAV Video because it doesn't support interlaced video and is also slower than the Microsoft decoder. In CUVID it does support interlaced.

If another decoder still gets used by MPC, then either block that filter or give it a lower merit.It won't work. I tried everything, blocking won't help either. In the end is using MPC Video Decoder for H.264 and saying that wasn't able to find a proper filter to use it when I let only "LAV Video Decoder" in this list of external filters from MPC:

http://i.imgur.com/3yjYs.png

[jmonier]

One of the problems with filter packs is that it's easy to fall behind with filters that are being constantly updated (if you even had the current version to begin with). You're certainly seeing that with LAV CUVID which has been obsolete for several months but is still included in the pack. LAV Filters ARE being constantly updated, so you need to be sure you have the latest version before you can get answers to your questions. Here's the link for LAV Filters:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191

If you still have problems after updating, you can ask questions there and have a better chance of getting good answers.

Also make sure you have the latest version of MPC-HC.

[Lincoln Burrows]

I only managed to make it appear in the filter list (while playing the video) after I found this:

http://i.imgur.com/dYfN5.png

Here's how I configured mine:

http://i.imgur.com/NdMkn.png

http://i.imgur.com/rBmig.png

Is that correct? Selecting "no hardware decoder" or "Intel QuickSync" will not display any image for the video. And using ffdshow with Intel QuickSync will not get me good results (slower picture), I believe it's because I am using Q9450 and for the reasons stated here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=162442

BTW, I downloaded the ffdshow version from the thread above as well.

Despite the fact the image looks OK now, it seems a little heavy (causing the audio sync issue a few times), maybe it's my video card, or (and here's something I am going to ask), the fact I am using FFDSHOW AUDIO DECODER in the filter list. I tried blocking ffdshow audio decoder and use LAV Audio Decoder, but it's not being used in the filter list from the file.

My settings:

http://i.imgur.com/RmIeb.png

http://i.imgur.com/c1qbp.png

Am I missing something? The file is m2ts, using both DTS-HD and AC3 streams (AC3 is the secondary stream, audio commentary).

Note: After blocking ffdshow, MPC uses "MPC Audio Decoder" instead.

[clsid]

You are obviously not using the MPC-HC version included in that pack, because that one doesn't include all those crappy internal filters.

Don't block ffdshow in the external filter list. If you don't want ffdshow to decode a certain format, simply disable that format in ffdshow settings.

[Lincoln Burrows]

You are obviously not using the MPC-HC version included in that pack, because that one doesn't include all those crappy internal filters.

Don't block ffdshow in the external filter list. If you don't want ffdshow to decode a certain format, simply disable that format in ffdshow settings.I am not using the MPC-HC version from K-Lite codec pack, but taken from here:
http://www.xvidvideo.ru/

And the picture is not showing you internal, but EXTERNAL FILTERS. I have added myself a few from the list just to block them and make sure ffdshow was not being used.

I am aware you can disable a certain codec in ffdshow settings, but I already tried that, and it didn't changed anything.

http://i.imgur.com/SYbYP.png

This picture shows INTERNAL FILTERS, and on the right, transform filters (I guess that's how MPC calls them). If I also disable AAC, AC3, DTS, LPCM, etc. from the transform filters, MPC tries to use AC3Filter. In AC3Filter settings you can see DTS being used. After I disable DTS in AC3Filter, it uses Sonic Cinemaster Audio Decoder. After I block Sonic Cinemaster, it uses MPC Audio Decoder...

http://i.imgur.com/YNtcp.png

I have no idea why it's not recognizing LAV Audio Decoder, since already worked for the video (decoder). Maybe we can't use it?

And must not be related to these settings:

http://i.imgur.com/RmIeb.png

Since I already tried them...

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DTS-HD in LAV Audio decoder might possibly only work when using LAV Splitter. Tip: you can change preferred splitter (source filter) with Codec Tweak Tool.
Otherwise, ffdshow also supports DTS-HD.

Why do you have AC3Filter? ffdshow and LAV can already do everything.

Internal filters in MPC should be disabled.