New Matroska splitter version from Gabest

[Bluedan]

Version 1.0.2.5. released today.
See the usual place (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/) for download.

I couldn't find a changelog or any other information about what has been changed or improved.
Anyone in closer contact to gabest?
Or the man himself?

BTW, for those who were missing visible activity on that site there are other new developments offered there. Have look.

And: THANKS GABEST :)

[Bluedan]

Silently replying to my own question.

Answer is: Not much. Really. :)

I'm not so familiar with cvs, but managed to find some useful info in the diff description here (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/guliverkli/guliverkli/include/matroska/matroska.h?r1=1.17&r2=1.18).

Also have a look here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89519) regarding the other new projects of gabest.

[DonGato]

Don't know what could be but both 1.0.2.4 and 1.0.2.5 make my Zoom Player crashes every once in a while while seeking a file. Returning to 1.0.2.3 fixes the problem. Haali splitter works well also but it has other more irritating problems. :P

[filewalker]

1.0.2.4 and 1.0.2.5 and Haali's Parser works fine here with ZoomplayerPro 4.10 beta2

Seeking works great, too.

I prefer Haali's parser atm because it supports AVC playback in KMV.
I hope that you have installed latest version from Haali's parser from 19.02.2005.
http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

Did you install a codec pack which messed up your system?
Which filters are in use during playback (zoomplayer/context menue/filter properties) ?

If you have ZoomplayerPro, then you can enable CustomizedMediaPlayback and you can choose the prefered filters(Source filter/splitter/Audio-, Video decoders/Renderers)

Cu

[DonGato]

Don't use any codec pack. Just ffdshow and some filters like Gabest OGM Splitter, VS Filter (Matroska modified one) and the AC3 Filter rc5. Nothing strange in my system but I don't use Zoom Player beta. Granted that the one crashing is only Zoom Player as MPC works well. Haali has some problems reported already in their thread in both players so is not an option now.

As I said 1.0.2.3 works well. No crashes at all, so I doubt is anything with the setup. Maybe people don't seek 5sec forward and back continuously as I do. This most probably won't happen if you seek once in a while.

The errors are "Out of Memory" and exceptions over zplayer.exe module.

This happens in two different setups.

[filewalker]

I tested now 1.0.2.5 and Haali's Parser again and
1) skipped forward/backward in 10s steps continuously very, very often,
2) seeked forward/backward in 5s steps continuously very often.

It works perfectly, no error message...with both 1.0.2.5 and Haali's Parser :rolleyes:

I would recommend to upgrade Zoomplayer to 4.10 beta2 (all betas of ZP are really stable!! ).

My test MKV file has: 2 AAC audio streams/1 XviD stream /2 VobSub subtitles. (I use a ffdshow build from Jannuary and enabled XviD as decoder inside of ffdshow/ CoreAAC /modified VSFilter)

Maybe update AC3Filter to 1.01a (if AC3Filter is in use), ffdshow to latest version...who knows.
If that all doesn't help, I haven't any other idea why this happens. :rolleyes:

Cu filewalker

[DonGato]

I already have last ffdshow and AC3 Filter (well, there is a new 'alpha' but I won't use it for now). I tested with lots of files, all with the same problem. Will try the ZP beta. :(

[DonGato]

Well, the crashes are still there. Less than before but still.
I really hate this Windows XP! I miss my Windows 2003... if I didn't have problems with the nVidia FX 5200. :(

[DonGato]

Well, it seems I was a little quick to jump into conclusions about Windows XP. :P

The problem was finally Zoom Player. It seems something in the settings was causing the crashes. Don't ask me what that could be.

The first thing I tried was removing the option to use ZP's Internal Equalizer/DSP/Visualization Filter but that while leading to no crashes left me with no audio track switching. :(

The second thing I did was resetting to default settings and applying all the configuration I used to use from scratch. There were no crashes after that.

What I see is that there is sometimes like a long pause when I seek and I think those pauses were the crashes I saw before. The funny about all this is this started when I switched to Gabest 1.0.2.4 splitter but I was having also crashes with other containers so that's why I blamed Windows XP.