alexrose1uk Wrote:If anyone has any ideas on my digital passthrough issue it'd be appreciated.
The debug snippet [I can post an entire log if it helps] confirms theres some sort of issue, but I have no idea whether the issue lies with FFDshow (I've tried a few different builds with no change), or the current build of DSPlayer (I'm currently using the 35694 build posted just a page or two back).
PCM output works fine 100% of the time for everything, but bitstream fails perhaps 50% of the time (and usually tends to end up crashing the DSPlayer component of XBMC so I have to restart), or thats what it feels like, the debug log tells me its not 'connecting' properly but doesnt really tell me *why*, especially as it DOES work some of the time.

tiben20 Wrote:good news


Big improvements
1.fixed color planes taht were screwed
2.fixed a/v out of sync
3.fixed decoder fps
4.some other stuff that cant be noticed from the print screen

therealjoeblow Wrote:Can you provide some details of your setup to make troubleshooting easier? I playback both AC3 and DTS exclusively with ffdshow in passthru mode without any issue whatsoever in XBMC (DSPlayer), MPC-HC and ZoomPlayer, so it's got to be something wrong with your hardware/setup.

*snip*

If you give me some details on what your setup consists of, maybe we can narrow it down to drivers, the soundcard, cabling, or your amplifier, because it surely isn't ffdshow or dsplayer.

Cheers
The REAL Joe

alexrose1uk Wrote:Thanks in advance,

I'm using the machine listed in signature, connected via HDMI from the GT220, via a Yamaha RX-V1800 AVR. Currently on Win7 x64 with 260.xx+ drivers. There is no soundcard involved.

I doubt the hardware is causing the fault; as, as mentioned previously, WASAPI using XBMC's DVDPlayer works flawlessly, and bitstreams DTS/DD 100% of the time, every time, and has since I started using XBMC about 5 months ago. I'd never run into this issue where LPCM works 100% but bitstream was flakey with this setup before, which is why I thought it would be related to FFDshow/DSPlayer somewhere. Also this involves DD 2 channel bitstream, not just 5.1.

My only thought is that it could be some sort of conflict somewhere involving DSPlayer, FFDShow and the microsoft HDMI audio driver; I'm not using Nvidia's HDMI audio driver as I used to run into intermitant issues where no audio sync was established at all, either PCM or anything else, until the machine was rebooted, whereas with the MS driver I encountered no such issue.
From a little reading around I think this was likely to be caused by an annoying whitelist/EDID feature Nvidia put into thier HMDI Audio driver which means if conditions aren't perfect when the card is initialised on boot, or it doesnt like any information it recieves from the other equipment in handshake, then it'll disable audio output until reboot, but it's been several months since I dropped Nvidia's HDMI audio driver so I can't 100% remember.

Either way, it leaves me in a strange situation where LPCM works 100%, and DD/DTS via WASAPI work perfectly, but not via FFDshow.

uncertainty Wrote:I see the offical 10.0 Dharma was released on 12/18 and people mentioned that once that takes place their would be daily downloads available for the dsplayer branch. First is the correct and if so where do I locate the dsplayer branch for 1.0 Dharma offical release?

thanks

KRA77 Wrote:Since I use my Mediapc for TV I need good codecs and de-interlace. The default xbmc simply doesn't cut it. Poor picture quality and lack of de-interlace with dxva. Today I figured I'd try this version of xbmc (I have above average computer skills, but fairly new to xbmc). I have installed http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=671530&postcount=3909 this version, but I hope some still can help.

Now my tv recordings are TS files, with different content, some are mpg2 others are h264 etc. Now DXVA and de-interlace is important to me, I have a slow cpu, but a good gfx card, so I really need the dxva.

First I tried the default settings, but then I had no dxva. So I replaced the filter for TS files to use FFDshow DXVA version. This is where I notice first problem, several files will not playback, playback simply never starts. My guess was that some of the TS streams where not DXVA compatible, and the ffdshowdxva codec will only playback dxva complient streams ??

So I figured I'd try the cyberlink codec since it plays pretty much anything you throw at it, it didn't work at all, but I notice the guid was wrong, so I entered the right one, and it worked, but then I again experience problem with severeal files. This time they start playback, and statistics show dxva in use etc.. but only black screen and no sound. (same problem if I turn off dxva in codec)

So I'm starting to think maybe it's not a codec issue, since different codecs somewhat the same problem. Also cyberlink plays files ffdshowdxva fails at, so that seems to rule out problems with the file itself.

KRA77 Wrote:Since I use my Mediapc for TV I need good codecs and de-interlace. The default xbmc simply doesn't cut it. Poor picture quality and lack of de-interlace with dxva. Today I figured I'd try this version of xbmc (I have above average computer skills, but fairly new to xbmc). I have installed http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=671530&postcount=3909 this version, but I hope some still can help.

Now my tv recordings are TS files, with different content, some are mpg2 others are h264 etc. Now DXVA and de-interlace is important to me, I have a slow cpu, but a good gfx card, so I really need the dxva.

First I tried the default settings, but then I had no dxva. So I replaced the filter for TS files to use FFDshow DXVA version. This is where I notice first problem, several files will not playback, playback simply never starts. My guess was that some of the TS streams where not DXVA compatible, and the ffdshowdxva codec will only playback dxva complient streams ??

So I figured I'd try the cyberlink codec since it plays pretty much anything you throw at it, it didn't work at all, but I notice the guid was wrong, so I entered the right one, and it worked, but then I again experience problem with severeal files. This time they start playback, and statistics show dxva in use etc.. but only black screen and no sound. (same problem if I turn off dxva in codec)

So I'm starting to think maybe it's not a codec issue, since different codecs somewhat the same problem. Also cyberlink plays files ffdshowdxva fails at, so that seems to rule out problems with the file itself.

1. Install Haali Media Splitter - Just install Haali Media Splitter (you can use Step 1 of this guide to help you)
   
2. Configure filtersconfig.xml - filtersconfig.xml is located in: (XBMC install folder)/system/players/dsplayer in filtersconfig.xml you need to add the following code under filters:
   Code:

   <filter name="haali" type="source">
  <guid>{55DA30FC-F16B-49FC-BAA5-AE59FC65F82D}</guid>
  <osdname>Haali Media Splitter</osdname>
</filter>
3. Configure mediasconfig - Located in the smame folder as filtersconfig.xml - Replace
   Code:

   <rule filetypes="ts|mpeg|mpg|m2ts">
      <source filter="mpegsource" />
      <splitter filter="mpegsplitter" />
      <video filter="ffdvideodec" />
      <audio filter="ffdaudiodec" />
    </rule>
   with:
   Code:

   <rule filetypes="ts|mpeg|mpg|m2ts">
      <source filter="haali" />
      <splitter filter="haali" />
      <video filter="mpcvideodec" />
      <audio filter="ffdaudiodec" />
    </rule>

KRA77 Wrote:However, with haali splitter I'm only able to playback TS files from HD channels, my SD channel recordings will not start at all, so I cant run graphstudio to check either.

KRA77 Wrote:Maarten Bolhuis ! You did it again.

Although you did not post the solution you pointed me in the right direction.

I had actually experimented with the dxva="true" option, so simply removing the dxva="true" command and use haali splitter and cyberlink codec solved it !! Now it plays everything.

Thank you mate!