reseting ffdshow to default settings for all files

[fallenturtle]

I don't know how, but my ffdshow decided that I wanted to play my videos all flipped. I've been trying to set it to its default, but its like ffdshow settings are attached to certain files because when I start playing some files, they play with the old and incorrect ffdshow settings. When I go into the ffshow configuration app after closing media portal, the "flip video" option is checked off again under "output". If I change it and close ffdshow config, then reopen it, it remembers my settings, but if I play certain videos in media portal it sets it back again!

Is there some way to either force Media Portal to use my ffdshow default settings or undo whatever setting it is that's doing this? Or perhaps is there someway to access the ffdshow configuration while a video is playing without having to run Media Portal in windowed mode?

Thanks.

[Paranoid Delusion]

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/im...hlight=flipped

There was also a setting on either a Dell or HP that would also flip the display, but does not sound like this.

[zeflash]

Well, same thing here, and I do have the latest ffdshow.

I wish that instead of trying to force things on its own, MP would just do like other media players and rely on the directshow filter priorities to choose which filters to use.
I just don't like not being able to accurately understand the reason of a playback failure because of an opaque setting.

[Leon_Gjerland]

In "FFdshow Video Decoder configuration" deactivate "Offset & flip". If it is not activated, try activating it, check "Flip" and see if that fixes your problem.

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Leon

[zeflash]

I believe both Fallenturtle and I know where the flip setting is in the ffdshow options.
The trouble (in my case at least) is that most of the times, starting a video from MP plays it upside down, using a "default" preset in ffdshow that doesn't have anything to do with my other presets (I usually have the presets loaded automatically given the size).
When that happens, I stop the video playback, and start it again, and then the flip is unchecked. This is quite mysterious. I'm probably going to have to install zoomplayer and use the playback plugin, as MP's is more and more broken (and too bad for the contextual info OSD )

Seems like MP is forcing a specific setting in ffdshow. I don't know if it's related, but when I'm opening the contextual menu in MP while playing something using ffdshow, and select the audio menu, I'm seeing the ffdshow systray menu entries there. There might a bug there, and it also might relate to those ffdshow problems. I really wish this would be fixed sometime soon.

[Paranoid Delusion]

When that happens, I stop the video playback, and start it again, and then the flip is unchecked

Sounds like you have a corruption on one of your codecs that is changing the FFDShow settings, if you run graphedit, what other filters are involved as they may be the cause of the problem.

[zeflash]

The graph looks fine, nothing fancy.
File -> avi splitter -> ffdshow video decoder -> VMR9
-> MPA decoder filter -> reclock

I still think this has something to do with the fact that trying to change the audio from the F9 menu in MP gives me the ffdshow menu.
If MP is then trying to remember an audio setting of some kind, and actually acts upon the ffdshow menu (thinking it's an audio stream chooser?) it would explain why it's doing that.

[zeflash]

I've deinstalled ffdshow, reinstalled it with a more recent version (ffdshow_rev1122_20070424_xxl) and reconfigured all the settings.
I don't have the issue anymore (hopefully it'll stick).

What I realized is that I had checked an option in ffdshow, in the "tray, dialog & path" page: the "Add tray icon menu to player's stream/languages menu". I haven't checked it this time. Maybe it was the problem. Maybe something else.

In any case, right now I don't have flipped video anymore, and that feels much better

[isoseeker]

zeflash,

i uncheckted the option in the "tray, dialog & path" page: the "Add tray icon menu to player's stream/languages menu" and that seems to have fixed the inverted video.

the version i am using is May19/07.

thanks.