MP chosing wrong Codec playing MPG (1 Viewer)

[RanaUK]

TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: 2.3
MediaPortal Skin: Blue
Windows Version: XP SP2
CPU Type: Intel E2140 1.6GHz
HDD: Maxtor 100GB
Memory: 2GB Corsair DDR2
Motherboard: Asus P5L-MX
Motherboard Chipset: Intel 945G and ICH7
Motherboard Bios: v1.006
Video Card: ATI Radeon 1550Pro 256MB
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 7.11
Sound Card: X-Fi XtremeMusic
Sound Card AC3: on-board decoder
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: ATI Theater™ 550 PRO
1. TV Card Type: analog
1. TV Card Driver: v6.14.10.263
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
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: Cyberlink v8.1.0.1026, Elecard v1.1.4586.0
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Cyberlink v6.1.0.4701, Elecard v1.1.4586.0
Satelite/CableTV Provider: SKY
HTPC Case: Custom
Cooling: Multiple fan
Power Supply: Generic 350W
Remote: Cyberlink
TV: Sony
TV - HTPC Connection: S-Video


Error Description:

MP is choosing wrong codecs when playing MPG files.

Initially My Setup was :
DVD - Cyberlink Mpeg and Cyberlink Audio
Video - Cyberlink Mpeg, CoreAVC H264 and ffdShow Audio
TV - Elecard Mpeg and Elecard Audio

In which case, all mpegs were using elecard to play it (under videos). Then for a while it worked when I had Cyberlink Video and ffdShow audio set in TV settings. But since yesterday, I am getting Cyberlink Video and Audio while playing MPGs.

Both Elecard (video and audio) is at Unlikely merit, Cyberlink Video and Audio is at Normal, and ffdShow at default (high hex value).

My real problem is, I have cyberLink set to SPDIF to use my SB Music onboard decoder; so if the mpeg do not have an AC3/DTS audio track, it doesn't play over spdif; thus I would want cyberlink to work only with DVD mode, and ffdShow for all video audio.

Tomorrow I will clear my configuration and try again. In the meantime, is this a known issue. I have found some links while searching, but all those seems to indicate that set movie codecs should def. work for MPEG files.

Thanks in advance.

 

[RanaUK]

Well, I have done several checks and the results are quite odd.

To start with, TV Codecs are still taking priority over Video Codecs (haven't tried to test DVD codecs yet).

With X-Fi XtremeMusic, I decided to whack all 16/24/32/32floating output on ffdShow; then there was one file caused problem which was cured by taking 32 floating out. With these output, MP used other audio codecs to play mpeg videos instead of ffdShow; both Zoom and GraphEdit used ffdShow successfully. Finally when I took 32 bit output off, MP started using ffdShow (finally)

TIP: If MP is not using ffdShow, check Supported output sample formats and try enabling only 16bit

So I can currently get around my problem; but would still like a fix where the Movie Player codec settings would be used.

 

[ero]

I'm still configuring MP and working out the best config for me. I too have noticed that the codec as selected for TV is the one being used for a video I select in the Videos section.
In my case the video trying to be played is a .TS file recorded my WebScheduler.