FFdshow audio bugs

[TlatoSMD]

Help! On WindowsXP and WindowsVista, FFdshow's audio plugins have given me countless hours and hours of beautifully live re-mastered eargasms of my music in Media Player Classic, but now I've stepped up to Windows7.

When I first installed MPC and its FFdshow audio plugin on Windows7, I remember it didn't work at first. I went deep down into the guts of MPC and saw that by default it was only turned on for a very specific type of mp3, and I switched it to all audio codecs and containers. It still didn't work, but then I noticed it was set to some wrong option which was something like, "Use only when applicable". I switched that latter to something like "Force use", and suddenly, it worked even on Windows7!

But only up until my next system reboot. Ever since then, this wonderful plugin is gone from MPC again. I can't find the right option or setting anymore, and re-installing either MPC or its FFdshow plugin doesn't help either.

Help! What do I do?

[Emulgator]

Win 7 has to be forced a bit more.
Win7PreferredDSFilterTweaker. Version 4.1 at the time of writing.

http://www.codecguide.com/windows7_preferred_filter_tweaker.htm

[Superb]

First, make sure you use the latest ffdshow and MPC-HC from http://www.xvidvideo.ru/
Then, after installing w/ the default settings, go to MPC-HC's Options, there to the "Internal Filters" tab and turn off all the internal audio codecs codecs which you would like to let ffdshow decode. Press OK and restart MPC-HC.
MPC-HC should now use ffdshow to decode all the formats you unchecked from the options.

If you have other audio decoders (3rd party; not Microsoft's) which get precedence over ffdshow (decoding the unchecked formats), you can go MPC-HC's Options again, to the External Filters tab, click "Add Filter...", pick "ffdshow Audio Decoder", and check "Prefer". Then press OK to close MPC-HC's Options. This will give ffdshow precedence over all other audio decoders in your system.

Win 7 has to be forced a bit more.
Win7PreferredDSFilterTweaker. Version 4.1 at the time of writing.

http://www.codecguide.com/windows7_preferred_filter_tweaker.htmHuh? He uses MPC(-HC?). He doesn't have to change the system's preferred audio codecs. This tool is for people who use WMP and such, where the player doesn't give you any control over the chosen filters.

[Cake^^]

Hi,

I may be having a related problem. I'm using MPC-HC 1.5.2903 using
Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder and ffdshow Audio Decoder (1.1.3611.0) to play back 720p H264 MKVs with DXA h/w acceleration on my Intel GMA 500 chipset/Atom 1.86 GHz NEC VersaPro netbook in Win 7 SP1.
Subtitles are enabled.

I noticed that the sound slows down during opening and closing credits, i.e. when music plays and even becomes distorted. The video is however completely smooth with CPU utilisation never exceeding 30%. This only happens when I play the files in a Window. If I play them at full screen or play them using Windows Media Player (no subtitles) I have no issues at all. I turned off all the internal audio codecs and set the ffdshow Audio Decoder as preferred external codec but the issue persists.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.