My MP won't play (or at least won't play correctly) my TrueHD films (1 Viewer)
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Well there is still my "last resort" suggestion which you could test in like 5 minutes if it even works for you.
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Hi Chris,
I tried to do what you suggested and it works successfully in the sense that I can play all my films regardless of the soundtrack encoding type. However, when I use Microsoft's audio decoder, my DTS films' sound is so much richer...
If there's no other option (like telling MP to use a MS decoder for DTS films or some sort of on-the-fly conversion of the TrueHD sound data to DTS) I'll have to use the setting you suggested and to switch to MS decoder when I want to play a DTS film and to maximize the sound quality.
Isn't life should be simpler than that...?
Yuval
I tried to do what you suggested and it works successfully in the sense that I can play all my films regardless of the soundtrack encoding type. However, when I use Microsoft's audio decoder, my DTS films' sound is so much richer...
If there's no other option (like telling MP to use a MS decoder for DTS films or some sort of on-the-fly conversion of the TrueHD sound data to DTS) I'll have to use the setting you suggested and to switch to MS decoder when I want to play a DTS film and to maximize the sound quality.
Isn't life should be simpler than that...?
Yuval
If there is, then I guess it goes a similar way as LAV->MPAR. Means decode -> reencode. So I don't know what happens to the quality there and the audio/video sync.
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Hi all,
First of all - thanks a lot for your kind help. Just in case that someone else that has the same problem as I'm having and wants to know how I got this issue resolved, well, here's how I resolved this issue: I used Chris's idea and now I can play any file (TrueHD or not) and the computer will send to my AV receiver only the basic audio signal - 2 sound channels and my AV receiver does a very good job in upmixing them to 5.1 so the result sound is more than sufficient for my ears and still - if I want to show off with a DTS film I can always switch back to Microsoft's audio decoder and play that film in real DTS pass-through mode. I have to say that although I would be happier if MediaPortal would allow me a more granular control over when to use which decoder so that I could use Microsoft's audio decoder for DTS and Dolby-Digital films and another (such as LAV or ffdshow) for the rest or to allow me to somehow "translate" the TrueHD/DTD-HD MA to DTS on-the-fly, I'm most certainly very happy with the result as it is right now. Thanks a lot for all your hard work invested in MediaPortal - I really think that it's the best HTPC software out there.
Another issue - Is there a way that I can attach an .srt/.sub file to a film that is stored as a BDMV folder without having to re-render it to a file?
T.I.A,
Yuval.
First of all - thanks a lot for your kind help. Just in case that someone else that has the same problem as I'm having and wants to know how I got this issue resolved, well, here's how I resolved this issue: I used Chris's idea and now I can play any file (TrueHD or not) and the computer will send to my AV receiver only the basic audio signal - 2 sound channels and my AV receiver does a very good job in upmixing them to 5.1 so the result sound is more than sufficient for my ears and still - if I want to show off with a DTS film I can always switch back to Microsoft's audio decoder and play that film in real DTS pass-through mode. I have to say that although I would be happier if MediaPortal would allow me a more granular control over when to use which decoder so that I could use Microsoft's audio decoder for DTS and Dolby-Digital films and another (such as LAV or ffdshow) for the rest or to allow me to somehow "translate" the TrueHD/DTD-HD MA to DTS on-the-fly, I'm most certainly very happy with the result as it is right now. Thanks a lot for all your hard work invested in MediaPortal - I really think that it's the best HTPC software out there.
Another issue - Is there a way that I can attach an .srt/.sub file to a film that is stored as a BDMV folder without having to re-render it to a file?
T.I.A,
Yuval.