Codecs SAF v5.02 *final* (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder) (6 Viewers)

[Jocker_Boy]

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

hoborg,

I just want to thank you for this great codec pack.
For me it is working perfect.

 

[bogey]

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

Hello,

does your directx installing gets the last june 2010 version?

Error during installing SAF last version under 7 64 bits (need rights to run d.bat even in administrator execution)

Same here with Win 7 64 SP 1 aand MP 1.1.3
Thx for a solution
bogey

 

[hoborg]

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

Hello,

does your directx installing gets the last june 2010 version?

Error during installing SAF last version under 7 64 bits (need rights to run d.bat even in administrator execution)

Same here with Win 7 64 SP 1
Thx for a solution
bogey

I have Win7 x64 SP1 here and no problem, i just tryed it.
No idea what is the problem.

 

[bhengeveld]

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

Hello Hoborg. thnx for a great tool: most of my video's are playing very fine, except .mp4 files: They just play the audiotracks, but no video, like it was an audiofile (I get the MePo skinoverlays for music and the MyMusicPlayingNow screen, when entering fullscreen). In MPC-HC they play just fine. Using Grapheditor, there is no remote stream to connect to when playing an MP4 from within MePo, using MPC-HC it's all fine. If I'm correct from reading this thread, this indicates that this isn't a problem in SAF, but in MePo. So I double checked the requirements and there doesn't seem to be anything missing... (although I don't use a state of the art PC) For sake of brevity I collapsed the mediainfo from MPC.

This is not showing video (just sound):
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Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 12 frames
Codec ID                         : avc1
Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                         : 1h 35mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 2 172 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 6 559 Kbps
Width                            : 1 280 pixels
Height                           : 688 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 1.860
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.103
Stream size                      : 1.45 GiB (83%)
Writing library                  : x264 core 67 r1162M f7bfcfa
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=12 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=12 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=2172 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.50 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=24000 / vbv_bufsize=24000 / ip_ratio=1.10 / pb_ratio=1.10 / aq=1:1.00
Language                         : English
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-02-01 07:57:57
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-02-01 08:00:41

Audio #1
ID                               : 2
Format                           : AAC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                   : LC
Codec ID                         : 40
Duration                         : 1h 35mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 167 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 87.4 MiB (5%)
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-02-01 08:00:32
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-02-01 08:00:41

Audio #2
ID                               : 3
Format                           : AAC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                   : LC
Codec ID                         : 40
Duration                         : 1h 35mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 316 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 435 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 217 MiB (12%)
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-02-01 08:00:36
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-02-01 08:00:41

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This is playing:
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Video
ID                               : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 4 frames
Codec ID                         : 27
Duration                         : 1h 38mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 9 039 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 18.0 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.182
Stream size                      : 6.38 GiB (83%)
Writing library                  : x264 core 98 r1649 c54c47d
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / weightp=0 / keyint=24 / keyint_min=1 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=24 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=9039 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=18000 / vbv_bufsize=18000 / ip_ratio=1.10 / aq=1:1.00 / nal_hrd=vbr

Audio
ID                               : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : 130
Duration                         : 1h 38mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 1.04 GiB (13%)

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I'm under the impression I just about read every post in this thread and tried every ffdshow setting but can't figure this out...

 

[hoborg]

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

bhengeveld:
Post MediaPortal logs too.

Maybe MePo play MP4 as audio instead of video? One of the plugin did this.

 

[edterbak]

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

Hi Bhengeveld,

There might be 2 issues:
1 - The file type .mp4 you are trying to play (when no video) You can remove THAT extention out of the list of extentions of music filetype section. Could be related to audio plugins like pureaudio also thinking it is audio etc.. If you have this kind of plugin installed ofcourse.
2 - The number of reference frames is 12 in the video not showing an image. This might be above the bluray spec. (but for this resolution im not sure) You could remux the file with 4 ref frames and see if it plays ok after that.

But my bet is (1) will solve this for you already. Hope this helps

 

[bhengeveld]

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

Thanks guys! Disabling the PureAudio plugin indeed solved the problem (I already removed the ext. from the music filetype list) In addition, I had to switch to ffdshow audio decoder instead of Monogram AAC, to get audio right. With Monogram AAC it sounded like it was recorded in a bathroom. (Graphstudio showed an audiostream going through Monogram and an audiostream going trough ffdshow when using monogram) Now everything plays just fine

Brilliant!

EDIT: Removing .mp4 from the PureAudio extension list also seems to do the trick!

 

[Mouch.net]

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

Hi Hoborg,
I tried to update my SAF5 to latest version...

1. I removed the old version, then I made a reboot.
2. I installed saf500svn20110214_msvc2010.exe. Setup worked fine.
3. Reboot.

Since then, MediaPortal configuration is crashing on start.
Configuration.log is attached. There is no other log generated.
Any idea how I could fix this?

 

[hoborg]

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

Hi Hoborg,
I tried to update my SAF5 to latest version...

1. I removed the old version, then I made a reboot.
2. I installed saf500svn20110214_msvc2010.exe. Setup worked fine.
3. Reboot.

Since then, MediaPortal configuration is crashing on start.
Configuration.log is attached. There is no other log generated.
Any idea how I could fix this?

START-SAF-tools-Filmerit

here you will find what wrong.
MePo configuration tool is very sestivie for such errors. It should popup error message instead of crash :/

 

[Phiolin]

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

Hello,

does your directx installing gets the last june 2010 version?

Error during installing SAF last version under 7 64 bits (need rights to run d.bat even in administrator execution)

Same here with Win 7 64 SP 1
Thx for a solution
bogey

I have Win7 x64 SP1 here and no problem, i just tryed it.
No idea what is the problem.

Just dropping by to say that I have the same problem since several versions.

Workaround: Once the "need rights to run d.bat" error message pops up, just wait 5 minutes, then click on "Retry". By that time, it should have magically resolved whatever problem there is... (another error will likely pop up, stating something like "File doesn't exist" - because the scripts have already run and installed everything, even cleaned up the temporary installation folder). Works for me at least, although I've got no idea why.