Bluray, No DTS (1 Viewer)

[philster]

Hi All

Well I have had an interesting holiday break. After a couple of years of no tinkering, I decided to update my HTPC from Windows XP to Windows 7 and get the latest version of MP going. I had put in a Bluray drive just before christmas.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I have had no end of trouble getting bluray going, that worked with no issue on windows XP. I have finally got the Moving pictures plugin to play the main feature on an inserted disk, but no matter what I try I can only get Dolby Digital to be passed through to the receiver. If I play a downloaded MKV file with DTS, that shows up as DTS on my receiver. This kind of suggests I have got something right. Playing Bluray using PowerDVD on windows XP gave me DTS. I can't seem to get PowerDVD to work on Windows 7, well unless I browse the drive and fire up the .mts file manually, then I still only get DD, not DTS.

I have checked ffdshow, ac3filter settings to make sure it is all set to SPDIF/HDMI passthrough.....

Has anyone else run into this problem, or even have a clue on where I can look next? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Philster



MediaPortal Version: 1.1.2.0
MediaPortal Skin: Blue 3 Wide
Windows Version: Windows 7 Home 64-bit
CPU Type: AMD Phenom
HDD: WD 1TB
Memory: 4GB DDR800
Motherboard: Gigabyte
Video Card: ATI HD3200
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card:
Sound Card AC3: HDMI
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Hauppage 4400
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T and DVB-S
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: Technistat Skystar 2
2. TV Card Type: DVB-S
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPV
MPEG2 Audio Codec: MPA
h.264 Video Codec: CoreAVC
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply: Corsair 520W
Remote: MCE Remote
TV: Samsung 40' LCD
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI --> Receiver --> TV

 

[SiLenTYL]

there are lots of threads about blu ray playback in and out of MP on the forums

my suggestion is:

get yourself PowerDVD10 and forget MP for blu rays


there are other ways of getting blu rays working inside MP (BDHandler Plugin) but they are not a perfect solution !

some blu rays are encoded with H264 and some are VC1p or VC1i video

VC1i are not (smooth) playable with any codec with Win 7 (perhaps Win XP /w SP3)


so in the end you are probably better off with a stand alone PC application that can play blu rays like PowerDVD10


PS: if any1 can tell me a full video/audio codec/renderer solution for Win 7 64bit using MP ..with 3x screenshots from Graphedit using BDHandler (GaBest splitter) for VC1i and VC1p and H264 ...ill give u a gazzillion dollars ~!!! *no shyte*