Codecs SAF v5.02 *final* (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder) (15 Viewers)

[costi]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

Has anyone encountered problems with SAF 5.00 on Nvidia ION?

Yesterday I reinstalled the OS on my Acer Aspire Revo 3610 (Atom 330, ION, 2GB RAM), installed MePo 1.1.0 final with MovingPictures, MyTVSeries and MyAnime2 and SAF 5.00 build 816 (in this order). ffdshow DXVA is set as the h.264 decoder in MePo configuration.

Now, the problem is that 1080p video lags horribly in MePo internal player, whole blocks of frames are dropped and ASS subtitles don't work properly, the video is unwatchable.
When I play it in MPC-HC included in SAF, the situation is slightly better, video is more-or-less okay, but the audio is completely out of sync (delay of about -500ms) and disappears occasionally.
When I switch MPC-HC to its internal filters, everything plays perfectly.

The video drivers are latest from nVidia, here is the clip I used for testing: K-ON!_OP2_[1080p,BluRay,x264]_-_THORA v2.mkv - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download

Has anyone encountered a similar problem? What other info do you need?

Is DXVA in use or not? (dudning playback press CTRL+ALT+O).

I think it is (see attached screenshot). I also included SAF install logs and evr.log, mediaportal.log and myanime2.log in the second archive.
In the logged event I starter MP, navigated to MyAnime2, played the file and after it finished returned to home screen and quit MP.
One thing I noticed was that the video was way behind audio and after the audio track finished the video was still catching up for about 10 seconds and then playback finished. CPU load was never higher than 40%.

 

[kleinerflo]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

Hi have a little problem with m2ts files
M2ts files it is always the file not playing normally even see the files like this 000.m2ts 001.m2ts then he starts with the 001.m2ts and if only one file the film has is not playing
Have times changed to the Microsoft codec then play them correctly in MP.

Hope you can tell me what there is flasch

info for MP 1.1 Final and last saf 5.0 Windows 7 64 bit

sorry for the bad english googel make it

 

[elvis56]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

Is there a way to just update from one svn to the next or do you always need to uninstall previous svn first?

thanks

 

[BlackBurn]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

Almost everything is working. I only have three issues with TV playback.

- When switching channels, sometimes the video freezes. When I turn the TV off and on, it works again.
- Sometimes, when I open a stream which can't be played, none of the other channels will work, until a reboot is done.
- Still some TV channels which can't be viewed (i.e. Film 1 HD, Canal Digitaal)

I use SAF5 unlocked and put the PowerDVD10 codec for both MPEG2 and H.264.

Is there a way I can figure out, which stream is sent to the TV-Client and what codec settings will work?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Larzon]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

The graphs are quite different, predominantly because SAF v4 uses the MPC decoder as opposed to v5's FFDSHOW decoder. See below:

Wow. Never tried V4 myself, didn't know it was so different. If everything is working with V4, maybe just stay with it and save yourself a bunch of time.

Similarly, I had an issue with (SAF V5) FFDSHOW playback of TS files. (Issue only occurred when playing inside MediaPortal). I spent a lot of time trying to solve the mystery, even though the native "inferior" MPC codecs gave perfect playback. Ultimately I gave up on FFDSHOW.

 

[costi]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

Just a quick update from me: I uninstalled SAF v5.00 and installed v4.00 and voila - everything is smooth and perfect!
The only thing that doesn't work exactly as it should is subtitle animation (ie. the subtitles show when and where they should, but they're not animated).

 

[EViS]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

The graphs are quite different, predominantly because SAF v4 uses the MPC decoder as opposed to v5's FFDSHOW decoder. See below:

Wow. Never tried V4 myself, didn't know it was so different. If everything is working with V4, maybe just stay with it and save yourself a bunch of time.

Similarly, I had an issue with (SAF V5) FFDSHOW playback of TS files. (Issue only occurred when playing inside MediaPortal). I spent a lot of time trying to solve the mystery, even though the native "inferior" MPC codecs gave perfect playback. Ultimately I gave up on FFDSHOW.

Yeah, I'm sticking with v4.0. My only problem is that for TV, the PDVD9 decoder has constant audio/video sync issues. However, with FFDSHOW as TV decoder, video stutters (seems to try and catchup?) every now and again. But no freezing or anything like what I was experiencing with h264 decoding before... DVD's play fine with FFDSHOW though.

 

[odysseus]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

Hello everyone, I was hoping you guys could clear something up for me? I had installed v5.00 in the hope that it might get subtitles working for MediaPortal's .ts recordings, but I've yet to get them to display. I use MP 1.1.0 with 4TR 1.5.0.1. I'm not exactly certain what the current situation is. I understand that MP has had some trouble displaying captions natively, but I haven't found anything on the forums stating that it doesn't encode them. As a very long time user of Meedio, which did encode them but did not natively support their display, I was able to use FFDShow to view them. When I've checked a MP file in GraphEdit, I do not see a connection for captions, and when playing a file in VLC, I again see no subtitle stream. Also, often what I've found on the forums discusses captions and subtitles in a general sense, often without implicitly stating whether this means TV or DVD or other video files, so I haven't been able to work out what is going on.

So I was hoping you guys on this thread, since you deal with the encoding/decoding aspect of MP so much would be able to help. Does MP encode the caption stream for TV? If it does not, is there a way to force it to? If it does, is there a limited number of codecs and/or settings that accomplish this? If there is, could you suggest them? I thank you all very much for any help and/or information, and apologize if anyone feels I've hijacked at all. While I am not hearing impaired, I am accustomed to using captions because I like them. and do miss them very much. And to hoborg, thank you for a great codec package.

 

[BlackBurn]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

Almost everything is working. I only have three issues with TV playback.

- When switching channels, sometimes the video freezes. When I turn the TV off and on, it works again.
- Sometimes, when I open a stream which can't be played, none of the other channels will work, until a reboot is done.
- Still some TV channels which can't be viewed (i.e. Film 1 HD, Canal Digitaal)

I use SAF5 unlocked and put the PowerDVD10 codec for both MPEG2 and H.264.

Is there a way I can figure out, which stream is sent to the TV-Client and what codec settings will work?

Thanks in advance.

I also switched back to 4.0 and almost every problem is gone. Still some small issues.

- When switchint channels, the video still freezes sometimes.
- The first tune in, no matter what channel, takes about 30seconds, which is long

But I can view every channel now!

Thanks for the great work!

 

[ianc]

Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)

I've been away from the last 6+ months and just got back and immediatly did a fresh install to MP 1.1 (Release). I'm having some problems playing older tv recordings (very serious hesitation) and also lip sync problems when watching live TV. Niether were a problem before. I'm still on SAF 4.00beta22test2. So I should probably upgrade as a first step.

The question is which version? SAF4.00 final or SAF5test3 ???? Do I have to get a fresh "Unlocker"?

I know - I should read through the thread but there's 130+ pages!!!

BTW I'm running W7 on a Quad Intel and a 4770 graphics card. If that makes a difference.