Guide: Perfect playback & Display calibration (1 Viewer)

[deviate]

If you have a standard 5.1 set up (speakers behind) use 5.1 otherwise use 5.1 surround (speakers to side).

Thanks for the quick reply. I have bipolar speakers mounted on my rear wall with the couch against the wall so I'm going to chose 5.1 surround as my setup.

 

[Sebastiii]

If you have a standard 5.1 set up (speakers behind) use 5.1 otherwise use 5.1 surround (speakers to side).

Hi,

I think that need to be added to wiki

 

[Baron of L/S]

Thank you for a fantastic guide, I have attached some screenshots of my Nvidia GEforce GT430 control panel as you requested in post 1.
If you want any more please ask.

 

[DJBlu]

@kiwijunglist

I have added the Nvidia setting screenshots for the 3 items to the first post.

 

[deviate]

I notice when I pause and resume the video, the audio sometimes get out of sync? I have followed the guide and turned off all the time adjustments in LAV audio and turned on the time adjustments in MPAR. How do I fix this or is this a bug?

 

[kiwijunglist]

I do not know. It does not happen to me. (well maybe once a month or less). Is there a specific pattern? If you could pin it down to a certain scenario and post logs then someone else might be able to pin down what is going wrong +/- fix it.

 

[tachtevrenidis]

Is there a similar guide for setting the codecs for TV (vs video as the screenshots show)? Or should it be the same? I have intel gfx and hd homerun as my tuner. Should I use LAV or should I use the microsoft built-in ones? (I currently use powerdvd with mixed results as far as smoothness).

 

[kiwijunglist]

For TV I like Microsoft, bc I think it handles errors in the DVB-T signal better than LAV Video. I feel that with LAV video, after there is signal corruption it sometimes doesn't recover unless I skip fwd/backwards, however Microsoft doesn't seem to have this problem.

 

[Spaldo]

Hi, thanks for the thread. I was having some issues with CCCP and MKV's and I think this has made the playback much better.

However, I only have stereo sound and I am not sure if this has made the voices lower.

Do you have any suggestions in making the voices louder for a stereo setup? (2.1)

 

[ed76]

if only the voices are to quite then there is a to high dynamic range. i have that problem with many of the new hd-movies. but there is an solution: look at the advancend settings of your audio device (hdmi?) in windows, there is a option for drc (dynamic range compression), in german its called "lautstärkeausgleich". found this: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=wus6wz&s=5, thats the right tab, than look at the last entry (you cant see this on the picture), there must be something like "volume equalisation" or something like that. this works very good. i recommend to use this only for your audio device for livetv or videos but not for your sound device to listen to music.