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[ca n vt]

Could someone please tell me the path to check what codecs windows media player is using. I'm having this problem of Media Portal not playing audio on ripped dvds (it plays it on recorded tv but not the ripped dvds even though I can see that purevideo has opened up and is runnign well and the picture looks good) and I noticed that Windows Media Player while not have the same problem is not playing recorded shows or ripped dvds very well. In fact it locks up and crashes when you try to play a simple mpeg file. Maybe the two are related in some way.

I just can't remember for the life of me where to look for that I know I have had problems with that in the past. Right now I'm using MCE on that system but would really rather be using Media Portal instead.

 

[jburnette]

Have you checked in MP setup to see what audio codec you have chosen for DVDs? The codec setup for TV and DVD is seperate. You can also open up graphedit and connect to the graph when playing a DVD and that should show you what codecs are attempting to be used. Perhaps there's another solution I'm not aware of, but those two should help you figure that out.

 

[ca n vt]

I have checked the codecs. In fact I've gone through the config and tried every one available. I've tried various settings for the speaker config as well. It is opening purevideo as I think I mentioned but I did notice purevideo only shows a 2 speaker set up instead of the 6 speakers it should be seeing. I used to have the Pure video bronze and upgraded to the platinum for the surround drivers. When MCE opens the same movie it shows all 6 speakers. I wonder if the older version is conflicting with it somehow. I don't know if it can do that or not. I'll try graph edit and see what I see.

I'm sorry I hate to sound dumb but I've never used graph edit before. How do you use that?

 

[ca n vt]

I am also testing out the xbox360 hd dvd drive right now and when since I had to download cyberlinks powerdvd and so had their codecs on there I tried switching to those just to see what would happen. The ripped movies played just fine. It is some kind of a codec issue. This kind of sucks since I forked out like $50 for the purevideo platinum stuff and nothing for the cyberlink ones.