no video when playing DVDs (1 Viewer)

[speedkills20]

I'm about 8 hours into this and am about to pull the plug, hoping someone can help me make one last effort before I find another front-end.

Installed everything to the letter like on the guide on avsforums.com. Out of the box DVDs ripped to my hard drive play. If I select any other codecs besides the default one (like ffmpeg, powerdvd 8, etc) I get black when I play a video but audio works.

If I go back and put it back to the default (MPV) it's still black. The only fix was to reinstall MediaPortal. I did that and it's the same thing again. Doesn't matter if I select a different DVD Navigation either.

Other videos play fine, just not ripped DVDs. They play ok in WMP and PowerDVD, just not in MediaPortal.

Opteron 165, WinXP, ATI 3450 HDMI card, AC3Filter, latest FFmpeg.

 

[speedkills20]

Looks like the problem is AC3filter. If I uninstall it then audio and video works but I can't get pass-thru to my amp. As soon as I install it neither audio or video work now.

I'm using the PowerDVD 8 decoder which is set to use SPDIF but it's not. Shouldn't I be able to use that and bypass AC3filter all together?

 

[odonnghaille]

I have all my settings, dvd navigator, video an audio codec set to pdvd 7, I dont change the default sound device drop down menu I leave as is and have no probs.

 

[poppabk]

Did you start with a fresh install of windows?
You may want to post your logs if you want people to daignose your problem, as AC3 filter and powerDVD codecs can definitely co-exist without problems, so there is something else going on with your system.

 

[magao]

Try the following (no idea if it will improve things, but works for me). Remove AC3Filter and install ffdshow-tryouts. Do S/PDIF passthrough for AC3 and DTS.

My current configuration for DVD playback is:

DVD Navigator: PDVD7 (will change to PDVD8 when MP 1.0.1 comes out)
DVD Codec: PDVD8
Audio: ffdshow

In addition (for other video), resample all audio (that isn't passed through) to 48KHz, and encode to AC3 at 640kbps. Optionally mix all audio to 5.1 (or whatever your speaker setup is). I've found this gives much better results for me than letting my amp do the mixing (and it's pretty good at mixing - but this is definitely superior).