vorbis directshow filter problem

[spotter]

I'm trying to encode Ken Burn's Baseball series into 1 XCD per inning. It's full frame, so takes a decent bit rate, so I wanted to just do its stereo track in 64kbps vorbis.

However, it plays w/ what I can just describe as static when used with the ogg direct show filters. On the otherhand, when played in winamp, its perfect (at least for my tastes).

Has anyone seen this before? Anyway to go about fixing it?

thanks

[tiki4]

Do you happen to use Windows 98 or ME? Try to change the output of OggDS decoder filter from 'floating point' to '16-bit integer'. I don't know the exact name of those settings, but just play an Ogg Vorbis file in WMP 6.4, go to properties and select the Vorbis decoder. That may solve your problem.

tiki4

[spotter]

No, I use XP Pro (sound card is Santa Cruz w/ latest drivers). Tried the Integer thing and it didn't help.

thanks

[tiki4]

Damn. That would've been too easy. How is the file renderer in Graphedit? Are all the right filters in place or are there any stupid ones involved? Also check, that you really render to DirectSound device and not to WavOut in XP.

tiki4

[spotter]

it's going to default waveout device, how do I fix that?

[spotter]

and fixing it manually in graphedit (replacing wave out with defautl direct sound device) makes it perfect. so how do I change the priorities so it picks it up automatically.

thanks!

[tiki4]

So that means, that your default renderer is WavOut and has a higher merit than DirectSound. Check doom9's download page for a package that's called AudioFilters. Inside you should find two .reg files that switch the default sound device. Import the one that switches to direct sound into your registry and reboot.

tiki4

[spotter]

thanks, that did it. Though it was in the Waveout-Dsound zip file which was described as the SPDF fix package

[tiki4]

Ooops. I never have used it myself. I think I downloaded it some years ago and then dumped it somewhere on my hard disk. I never had issues of that kind. Maybe you should find out, which program or driver changes the merit of the filters...

tiki4

[Ramirez]

Or alternatively you could use Rad-light (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64298&highlight=radlight+filter) Filter Manager for the same purpose (i.e. giving a higher merit to DirectSound (or any other dshow filter)