Mixed vs Singular Codecs (1 Viewer)

[zanlation]

I have a number of different codecs installed that I use depending on whether I play movies from HDDs, DVDs, Live TV etc. I generally used ffdshow video/audio, PowerDVD 8 ultra or the standard MP codecs. I have had all sorts of crashes going from playing a movie from HDD using ffshow to liveTV using powerdvd. I recently standardised all my codecs so they use HA powerdvd for video and ffshow for audio and I don't seem to suffer from crashes going from one video type to another using RC3.

I know from reading forum articles that using 1 or 2 codecs seems to be more stable. However, should this really be the case, or am I dreaming? What are others experiences?

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

its always better to stick with as few codecs as possible. I also only use ffdshow for most video / audio codecs. Only for MPEG (DVD / TV / Video) I do use nVidia.

Flip.

 

[hoborg]

I have a number of different codecs installed that I use depending on whether I play movies from HDDs, DVDs, Live TV etc. I generally used ffdshow video/audio, PowerDVD 8 ultra or the standard MP codecs. I have had all sorts of crashes going from playing a movie from HDD using ffshow to liveTV using powerdvd. I recently standardised all my codecs so they use HA powerdvd for video and ffshow for audio and I don't seem to suffer from crashes going from one video type to another using RC3.

I know from reading forum articles that using 1 or 2 codecs seems to be more stable. However, should this really be the case, or am I dreaming? What are others experiences?

Did you try SAF?