MS MPEG demux filter (1 Viewer)

[niblick]

I've been experimenting with different demux filters in graphedit to get h264 streams to play with some success but MP seems to force the MS demux filter to be used whatever I do with merit values on other filters.

Does anyone know if MP can be coaxed into using an alternative dumux filter or is there some reason that the MS filter is required?

I've done some searching on the forums and found some references to the DVR-MS dependancy which may be related but I'm no expert in this area so I can't be sure.

Any pointers from someone who does know how this works would be greatly appreciated.

 

[reagan+carter]

I'm no expert and maybe out of topic but, using mediaportal, my h.264 files (in avi, mp4, mkv, or ogm containers) are read with the only help of the official Matroska demuxer (aka Haali Media Splitter). Regarding live TV, I'm of no help though: I've never encountered this kind of broadcast yet. However .tp/.ts streams are now correctly handled by Haali's and don't rely on anything else - on my machine - to be played through the MyVideos interface.

I have no experience with dvr-ms files either.
Are your AVC streams recorded with mediaportal and embedded in dvr-ms files?

 

[niblick]

sorry R+C, I was a bit vague. My aim was to get live HDTV working but I was playing around with .ts files dumped from the BBC HD channel to test out filter combinations in graphedit.

Anyway, somewhat surprisingly, the question is now academic since I reinstalled MP + TVengine plugin last night without the default MPA / MPV codecs and it all suddenly worked - BBC HD live TV in all its glory on my screen

Im now very confused since the graph built by MP to handle this stream (image attached) still includes a filter called MPEG-2 Demultiplexer which I'm pretty sure is my old friend the MS splitter. I would have sworn that this splitter can't handle h.264 streams so if it really is the MS splitter then I'm really not sure what's going on.

 

[reagan+carter]

Don't be puzzled looking at this graph. MPEG-2 transport files (.ts) can provide some sorts of MPEG-4 streams, including H.264 (see ISO/IEC 13818-1). And it appears Microsoft's splitter's not that bad.

Now if it works don't touch anything !