Play Videos: MP only uses ffdshow (1 Viewer)

[MaxMan23]

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Hi,

i have got an problem with the movie player and ffdshow:
When i change the codecs in MP Configuration nothing happens and MP uses ffdshow.
When i uninstall ffdshow MP would not play any videos.

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What could i do?

 

[vuego]

You can't configure avi files from MP Configuration. Those files will always be rendered using the filter's merits. You should have the same result if drag+dropping the avi onto GraphEdit i.e. ffdshow being automatically used.
You have two options, either lower ffdshow's merit at ffdshow Video decoder configuration/DirectShow Control/Merit or use a program such as RadLight Filter Manager to manually give your wanted decoder the highest merit.

 

[MaxMan23]

That does not work. When i change the merit fromm ffdshow to "unlikely" and Cyberlink to preffered, MP crashes.
What else could i do. I wont use ffdshow.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

PowerDVD player will play most filetypes, but the codecs only have mpeg2\h.264 playing ability, so they will never play a avi file.

You either need Divx\Xvid or FFDshow for these filetypes.

Just to confirm, if playing a mp4\avi file, PowerDVD8 player uses Divx codec.

You can check this out yourself using graphedit.

 

[ZedNine]

is there anyway to make mediaportal select the directshow filter selected in configuration instead of basing it on merit?
maybe if i lowered the merit in all the filters?

what i'm trying to do is run two different copies with mediaportal with two different mediaportal.xml configuration files. one i want it to use ffdshow audio decoder always, whereas the other one i want it to run MPA decoder or anything else.

anyone got any ideas?

thanks