RC2 and RC4 + Haali question (1 Viewer)

[excelsium]

Yea I'd like this to be fixed though, having a fully working internal player is the best solution.

 

[JoePlumber]

Hi Joe,

I appreciate the suggestion, but to be honest, I have just too many files to do that with, some of the series I have are 70 episodes long, and doing it for each file really would take too long =(

Hi Tancor,

I havn't try this in MP but you can give this a go,

1. open Haali Splitter and click on Options tab.
2. under Languages, click on "Audio language priority" and type in the value eng
3. optionally you can set this for both audio/subtitle in "Audio and Subtitle languages". Type the value eng,eng

 

[Tancor]

Hi Joe,

That is basically how I have my haali setup already - which is why it works perfectly in WMP11 (see my original post) - in the audio and subs, having eng,eng for me is not what I'm looking for (that would activate english audio and english subtitles) where what I want is english language, no subs, subs for any other language, which is config'd as:

eng,off;*,eng

These settings work correctly in WMP11 and on my tversity server (for my ps3) - but not on MP - media portal will run with the first language in the file regardless of the haali settings it seems.

 

[JoePlumber]

In the system tray, can you select the english language if you right-click on Haali Splitter?

 

[Tancor]

yes, if I run MP in windowed mode, I can force it to english via that haali window. But I shouldn't have to do this, MP is doing something to force its own setting onto haali regardless of my preset configuration.

 

[JoePlumber]

yes, if I run MP in windowed mode, I can force it to english via that haali window. But I shouldn't have to do this, MP is doing something to force its own setting onto haali regardless of my preset configuration.

Thanks for confirming that for me. It looks likes ffdshow audio is overriding the settings in Haali Splitter at startup. MP was able to read the registry settings for Haali and had changed the default audio track to english accordingly. There is a stream switcher in ffdshow but it doesn't look like its working. As a side note, DirectVobSub can override settings made in Haali Splitter as well.

Other than that, you may have to make the changes manually unless someone knows of a better idea.

 

[Tancor]

Just out of curiosity tho when I launch one of these videos with another player, FFDShow Video, audio and Haali are all loaded, and the appropriate haali's settings are used, so I wonder what it is in media portal that causes ffdshow to override haali? The only difference is the media player software. Media portal - I get the wrong settings. Media Player I get the right ones.... there has to be something that is causing the override...

Just kind of boggles the mind here....

I do hope that some of the developers or testers that can submit bugs have read this and can get some movement on it. This is really annoying, as with configuring haali's it should be automagic. At the least maybe they can make it where there are selections within Media Portal to select language / sub to make an option to set defaults similar to haali's settings...?

 

[globaldonkey]

I'm not sure, but I think MP may always select the 1st audio and subtitle track in a mkv. At least that's what I have observed.

You can change subtitles in MP, by pressing "L" or mapping that to a key on your remote. You can do the same with audio tracks by using "A". It's not exactly what you want, but it works.

You could try submitting a proper bug report in the bug report section for 1.0 Final.

 

[JoePlumber]

I'm not sure, but I think MP may always select the 1st audio and subtitle track in a mkv. At least that's what I have observed.

You can change subtitles in MP, by pressing "L" or mapping that to a key on your remote. You can do the same with audio tracks by using "A". It's not exactly what you want, but it works.

You could try submitting a proper bug report in the bug report section for 1.0 Final.

Process Monitor will actually show MP is reading the registry key at HKCU/Software/Haali/Matroska Splitter/as.languages = eng,no or *,eng
ffdshow somehow doesn't see this new track information and instead plays the default audio track 1.

 

[globaldonkey]

OK, but that assumes MP does something with what it reads out of the registry.

Changing to another codec like PDVD instead of ffdshow should prove that it is ffdshow that's the problem. A screenshot from graphstudio would help to confirm too.